Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Jun 2007 21:14:26 +0200 | Subject | Re: Another version of cleanfile/cleanpatch | From | Oleg Verych <> |
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On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 07:50:26PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: [] > > Many things in XXI century still can be done by tools founded 20-30 > > years ago. Why not try to? > > Because your shell script is unreadable by normal human beings[*] > while the perl script for people with a bit of perl fu can read it > and fix/modify it. > > We want tools that can be maintained and enhanced by most people. > > [*] Normal human beings are people with same level of shell > scripting/sed skills that I have just to put that straight.
In many cases i think, it's limiting one's imagination and expanding laziness[0].
In the school algebra (usually) there are many exercises with plain-useless equations and formulas you must solve or simplify. Guess why? Thus my proposition. ;)
--- [0] Now, when most UNIX tools done with good quality (courtesy of the GNU project), it's time not to convert programmer's laziness[1] to ordinary one. Why there's one big and slow Bourne again shell, yet to have fast ([d]ash) and tiny one took more time? As result more efforts to remove bashizms...
[1] Ironically connected to Perl chapter of UNIX Power Tools <http://unix.org.ua/orelly/unix/upt/ch37_02.htm> ____ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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