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A parody of "Make 'Em Laugh", which was written by Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed and performed by Donald O'Connor in the 1952 film "Singin' in the Rain".

Make is crap, make is crap!
Don’t you know, everyone, make is crap!
My dad said: write a Makefile, my son.
It makes compiling such fun!
You'll with building with ease
Once you've written your dependencies,
But if you write too many then your builds take too long,
And if you write too few then your results may be wrong.
It’s such a faff, and that is why I’m singing this song:
Make is crap, make is crap, make is crap!

Make is crap, make is crap!
Don’t you know, everyone, make is crap!
The only data type is the string;
It's used for everything!
And it’s really a chore
To write if-statements with AND or OR.
If you access a variable you haven’t defined
Then make creates a new one for you; isn’t that kind?
Unless you just mistyped the name you had in your mind!
Make is crap, make is crap, make is crap!

Make is crap, make is crap!
Don’t you know, everyone, make is crap!
The syntax comes from programming hell.
It stops me programming well.
There are many bad things,
Like: it doesn't put quote marks round strings,
I get confused when I must choose 'tween parens and braces,
And commas mean all different things in different places,
And it blows up if I mix up a tab and four spaces.
Make is crap, make is crap, make is crap!
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Apr 07, 2021 · 46 points, 2 comments · submitted by scholaronroad
xiaodai
the sun rises from the east.
canada_dry
* the compile builder... not the DIY movement.
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