Be Aware of the Makefile Effect

I dunno they're using copy-paste as if it's a bad thing.

There's no virtue in writing something character by character.

If anything these languages and systems are better for the Makefile effect.

That you can't really do effective copy-pasting in imperative languages is a weakness.

The author mentions that copy-pasting code by itself is not a bad thing. The problem with the phenomena they describe is that people copy-paste files around because they _don't understand it_, and end up with stuff that works, but is inefficient and hard to debug.