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evolutionevolutionPosted Jan 29, 2013 7:26 UTC (Tue) by Seegras (subscriber, #20463)In reply to: evolution by dashesy Parent article: Poettering: The Biggest Myths
"Some old-school Unix habits have persisted long past
the point that they're even remotely sane. Shell programming at any volume above a few lines of throwaway code is one of them - it's *nuts* and we should *stop doing it*." -- ESR on shell scripts. http://lwn.net/Articles/527308/
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ESR does not speak for me Posted Jan 31, 2013 13:12 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link]
This recommendation is almost enough to make me take up shell programming again. Or sed.
ESR does not speak for me Posted Jan 31, 2013 15:29 UTC (Thu) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]
I agree about ESR, but even a broken clock is right twice a day ;-)
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