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On 13/08/2014 14:18, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: |
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> On Wed 13 Aug 2014 03:10:22 AM EDT, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> Bash is also like that, omfg; bash seems to have been designed to make |
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>> decent code fundamentally impossible to write... |
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> I mean, if you're trying to write anything more than a screenful in Bash |
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> you should definitely use Ruby or Python IMNHO. The RVM (Ruby Version |
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> Manager) project recently was raising money to pay a developer to port |
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> ~20,000 lines of Bash to Ruby, which is just embarrassing. |
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>> I will refrain from commenting on perl |
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> I wrote 250 lines of perl and forgot how it worked a day later ;) Write |
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> it, ship it, forget about it. |
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I had the pleasure of maintaining an exceptionally well-written bespoke |
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perl app of 20,000+ lines. Written by an exceptional mathematician with |
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10+ years of sysadmin experience, that code base was a dream. It all |
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just made so much sense, perl notwithstanding. |
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At the same time I also had to maintain another giant 5,000 line |
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monolithic beast that brought any strong developer to their knees. Oh, |
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the pain, the pain. |
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So with perl it can go both ways |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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