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First, a great aphorism from Zed's (Vellum book](http://www.zedshaw.com/projects/vellum/manual-final.pdf) (pdf):

Makefiles are the C programmer’s REPL and interpreter.

He also asks himself:

What’s the minimum syntax needed to describe a build specification?

I predict good things based on the presence of that question alone.

You have my permission to name your next test framework, library, or script "epic" and bill it as "more full of [FAIL] than any other test thingy".

Oh, and http://www.google.com/search?q=epic.py

/me looks in Titus' direction...

Chui's counterpoint pines:

There are some interesting ideas raised in LINQ that even Python developers ought to explore and consider adopting in a future Python.

Python had all this before LINQ in Dejavu and now Geniusql, and more pythonically, to boot. Instead of:

var AnIQueryable = from Customer in db.Customers where
    Customer.FirstName.StartsWith("m") select Customer;

you can write:

m_names = Customer.select(
    lambda cust: cust.FirstName.startswith("m"))

and instead of:

var AverageRuns =(from Master in this.db.Masters
    select Master.Runs).Average()

you can write:

avgruns = Masters.select(lambda m: avg(m.Runs))