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  • Shell scripts were a mistake.

    I understand 1000% but I’m not sure I agree. With the peevishness of C and latent autism of assembly, something compiled or otherwise binary isn’t always simple and straightforward. Sometimes, you have a task that only needs to be done three times, and just replaying the commands is sufficient.

    sh, ash, and bash are all kinda dumb. Absolutely. But there are other shells that are significantly better. csh and zsh are both great. ksh has some history on it but is good too. But “shell scripts” don’t have to be in your shell language. The hashbang line will let you make a command file and so long as you can describe the command line you can get most shells to run it. Be that language line noise perl or python or even go.







  • Billegh@lemmy.worldtoLefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comNot you
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    15 days ago

    It kinda feels like they did this to themselves in France at least. If they weren’t so help bent on raising the requirement retirement age, people might’ve not flipped so hard. And of course it won’t get fixed and they’ll have other issues, but people don’t often think that far ahead…