Fast boot

Fast boot

Posted Nov 15, 2012 9:46 UTC (Thu) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129)
In reply to: Fast boot by marcH
Parent article: LCE: Systemd two years on

Scripts are easier to understand than C code because they're using a higher level language which means comparable things are done in code several times smaller.

Brevity alone doesn't help. intgr's point is that every time you read a command such as foo | awk '{ print $4 }', you need to know what foo prints in its fourth column, so it forces you to keep lots of things in mind, which certainly isn't maintainable.

And by the way, that's not just a limitation of the bash language but of UNIX shells in general, as their primary means of communication is an unstructured byte stream.

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