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RE: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch
From: Barry Shein <bzs () world std com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 15:51:53 -0400
On October 22, 2014 at 11:36 jamie.s.bowden () raytheon com (Jamie Bowden) wrote:
From: Bryan TongThe final fact is that bash itself is a dirty language that developers hate and system administrators love.Excuse me? I've been administering systems for over twenty years now and I can't say that I've ever even once chosen to use bash over any alternative; no matter how much that alternative might suck, bash sucks more. Your Linux addicts who've never used another flavor of Unix may be addicted to bash, but there's no helping some people.
I wish I had a nickel for every time I started to implement something in bash/sh, used it a while, and quickly realized I needed something like perl and had to rewrite the whole thing. Sure, one can insist on charging forward in sh but at some point it becomes, as Ken Thompson so eloquently put it on another topic entirely, like kicking a dead whale down the beach. -- -Barry Shein The World | bzs () TheWorld com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD | Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool & Die | Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*
Current thread:
- Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch Israel G. Lugo (Oct 20)
- Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch Ca By (Oct 20)
- Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch Randy Bush (Oct 20)
- Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 21)
- Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch Miles Fidelman (Oct 21)
- Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch Israel G. Lugo (Oct 21)
- Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch Owen DeLong (Oct 21)
- Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch Bryan Tong (Oct 21)
- RE: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch Jamie Bowden (Oct 22)
- RE: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch Barry Shein (Oct 22)
- Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch [OT] Lamar Owen (Oct 23)
- Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch [OT] Zachary (Oct 23)
- Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch [OT] Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 23)
- Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch [OT] Lamar Owen (Oct 23)
- Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch [OT] Jay Ashworth (Oct 24)
- Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 21)
- Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch [OT] Stephen Satchell (Oct 23)
- Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch [OT] Barry Shein (Oct 23)
- Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch [OT] Tei (Oct 24)
- Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch [OT] Lamar Owen (Oct 24)
- Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch [OT] Jim Mercer (Oct 24)