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- From: Tony Smith <tony AT smee.org>
- To: Nick Jennings <nkj AT namodn.com>, sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [SM-Sorcery]Language wars...
- Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 18:07:15 +0100
On Tuesday 08 October 2002 6:02 pm, Nick Jennings wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 12:46:19AM -0700, Aaron Brice wrote:
> > Simplicity? Have you looked at the sorcery functions, at the many
> > awkward for/cut/grep loops that would be one-line perl functions?
>
> Since when was a perl one-liner ever acknowledged for being "simple" ?
> (Before you try to explain the benefits of perl, I want to let you
> know I am a long time perl hacker).
Me too and I completely agree.
> I happen to think the shell scripts are extremely messed up right now,
> mostly due to the infrastructure that Kyle put in place, and especially
> around cast & dependencies. However, I don't think just by switching to
> perl we will fix the problem.
>
> Design is the issue, not language, and I'm convinced we could improve
> our tools immensly, even if we stayed with bash.
Welcome the voice of reason!
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Re: [SM-Sorcery]Language wars...
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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
- Re: [SM-Sorcery]Language wars..., M.L., 10/09/2002
- Re: [SM-Sorcery]Language wars..., Bearcat M. Sandor, 10/09/2002
- Re: [SM-Sorcery]Language wars..., Robin, 10/10/2002
- Re: [SM-Sorcery]Language wars..., ML, 10/10/2002
- Re: [SM-Sorcery]Language wars..., Robin, 10/10/2002
- Re: [SM-Sorcery]Language wars..., Ryan Abrams, 10/10/2002
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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
- Re: [SM-Sorcery]Language wars..., Tony Smith, 10/08/2002
- Re: [SM-Sorcery]Language wars..., Dufflebunk, 10/08/2002
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Re: [SM-Sorcery]Language wars...,
Aaron Brice, 10/08/2002
- Re: [SM-Sorcery]Language wars..., Dufflebunk, 10/08/2002
- Re: [SM-Sorcery]Language wars..., Aaron Brice, 10/08/2002
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Re: [SM-Sorcery]Language wars...,
Sergey A Lipnevich, 10/08/2002
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Re: [SM-Sorcery]Language wars...,
Tony Smith, 10/08/2002
- Re: [SM-Sorcery]Language wars..., Sergey A Lipnevich, 10/08/2002
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Re: [SM-Sorcery]Language wars...,
Tony Smith, 10/08/2002
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