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This looks a lot like a Make rule to me.

    %.html: %.md
          generatehtml $^ >$@

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Here's a slightly more involved but still incredibly simple one I put together: https://flukus.github.io/building-a-blog-engine.html

Turned out a hell of a lot faster than any static site generator I've used.

Those who are unaware of history is doomed to repeat it, eh.

I use makefiles for a lot of things, they're very straight-forward. If you just follow the UNIX design philosophy, your programs are going to be makefile-useable anyways.

I've actually experimented a bit using make+pandoc as a static site generator/pdf compiler. It semantics of make actually transfer pretty well.

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