Make is one of those things that I'm really glad I learnt at the beginning of my career. Not because I use it much any more, but because it showed me the power of a declarative system over an imperative one.

I also realised at one point how naturally the idea extends to other tasks that I do. Going by the picture at the top of this site, it seems the author realised a similar thing to me: you can understand food recipes better if you think about them declaratively like makefiles, rather than imperatively like scripts, which is how recipes are traditionally written down.

I wrote about it here: https://blog.gpkb.org/posts/cooking-with-make/

I always scribble down recipes in a way that I can read like a Makefile and take that into the kitchen with me. I'm curious if anyone has tried typesetting or displaying recipes in this way as I feel like it would save a lot of time when reading new recipes as I wouldn't have to convert from a script to a makefile myself.