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- From: Mark Andrews <msasgl AT msa-enterprises.com>
- To: Tony Smith <tony AT smee.org>
- Cc: sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [SM-Sorcery]Language wars...
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 15:43:16 +0100
Hello Tony,
Monday, October 7, 2002, 2:40:53 PM, you wrote:
TS> What if the DETAILS file was not written in bash, but just a
TS> simple tag=value format text file that could be easily grep'd or
TS> parsed?
Personally, I feel that the underlying data structure is key in any
system. If the data structure is well defined and language independant
then the issue of what language to use becomes less relevant as
porting becomes a much simpler proposition. I'm all for clear
seperation of data from code in whatever format. I prefer a colon
seperator rather than "=" for readability with arrays etc :-
array1:value1:value2:value3
reads better to me than
array1=value1=value2=value3
and allows for things like
array1:SPEEDY:cflags="-O3":cflags=""
where using "=" as a seperator would break things.
The combination
array1=value1:value2:value3
also has merit but makes (bash) coding slightly more complicated.
--
Best regards,
Mark mailto:msasgl AT msa-enterprises.com
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[SM-Sorcery]Language wars...,
Tony Smith, 10/07/2002
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Re: [SM-Sorcery]Language wars...,
Mark Andrews, 10/07/2002
- Re: [SM-Sorcery]Language wars... (Bash specific), Dufflebunk, 10/07/2002
- Re: [SM-Sorcery]Language wars..., Tony Smith, 10/08/2002
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Re: [SM-Sorcery]Language wars...,
Sergey A Lipnevich, 10/07/2002
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Re: [SM-Sorcery]Language wars...,
Aaron Brice, 10/07/2002
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Re: [SM-Sorcery]Language wars...,
Jens Laas, 10/08/2002
- Re: [SM-Sorcery]Language wars..., Eric Schabell, 10/08/2002
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Re: [SM-Sorcery]Language wars...,
Aaron Brice, 10/08/2002
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Re: [SM-Sorcery]Language wars...,
Geoffrey Derber, 10/08/2002
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Re: [SM-Sorcery]Language wars...,
Eric Sandall, 10/08/2002
- Re: [SM-Sorcery]Language wars..., Ryan Abrams, 10/08/2002
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Re: [SM-Sorcery]Language wars...,
Eric Sandall, 10/08/2002
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Re: [SM-Sorcery]Language wars...,
Geoffrey Derber, 10/08/2002
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Re: [SM-Sorcery]Language wars...,
Jens Laas, 10/08/2002
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Re: [SM-Sorcery]Language wars...,
Aaron Brice, 10/07/2002
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Re: [SM-Sorcery]Language wars...,
Mark Andrews, 10/07/2002
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