Make - Programming language

Make is an open source programming language created in 1976 by Stuart Feldman.

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A makefile is a file containing a set of directives used with the make build automation tool.. Read more on Wikipedia...

Tags: programming language, application
There are at least 247,622 Make repos on GitHub
Early development of Make happened in Bell Labs
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 153k users using Make in 251k repos on GitHub
Explore Make snippets on Rosetta Code
Make on HOPL
Make Ubuntu package
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for Make
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for Make
Make appears in the Quine Relay project
See also: (1 related languages) C
Read more about Make on Semantic Scholar: 1.
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Example from the web:

 edit : main.o kbd.o command.o display.o \
       insert.o search.o files.o utils.o
        cc -o edit main.o kbd.o command.o display.o \
                   insert.o search.o files.o utils.o

main.o : main.c defs.h
        cc -c main.c
kbd.o : kbd.c defs.h command.h
        cc -c kbd.c
command.o : command.c defs.h command.h
        cc -c command.c
display.o : display.c defs.h buffer.h
        cc -c display.c
insert.o : insert.c defs.h buffer.h
        cc -c insert.c
search.o : search.c defs.h buffer.h
        cc -c search.c
files.o : files.c defs.h buffer.h command.h
        cc -c files.c
utils.o : utils.c defs.h
        cc -c utils.c
clean :
        rm edit main.o kbd.o command.o display.o \
           insert.o search.o files.o utils.o

Example from Riju:

.PHONY: all
all:
	@echo "Hello, world!"

Example from hello-world:

$(info "Hello World")
all:

Example from Linguist:

#!/usr/bin/make -f
%:
  ls -l

Example from Wikipedia:

edit: main.o kbd.o command.o display.o
    cc -o edit main.o kbd.o command.o display.o
     
main.o: main.c defs.h
    cc -c main.c
kbd.o: kbd.c defs.h command.h
    cc -c kbd.c
command.o: command.c defs.h command.h
    cc -c command.c
display.o: display.c defs.h
    cc -c display.c

clean:
     rm edit main.o kbd.o command.o display.o

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Comments	✓	# A comment
Line Comments	✓	# A comment	#
Semantic Indentation	✓
Assignment	✓	objects = program.o foo.o utils.o
Variable Substitution Syntax	✓	objects = program.o foo.o utils.o $(objects)