Robert G. Brown wrote:
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Dan Stromberg wrote:
python's the way of the future though :) Agreed that shell (bash) and
make are important, and regular expressions of a (very powerful)
necessary evil.
Not just powerful, not just evil. Regular expressions are one of the
things that give a systems administrator that je ne sais quoi, that
special little something, that aura of invincible power.
Folks who don't grok RE are missing quite a bit. There is a huge amount
of power in a tiny space. They ain't extremely easy, but they are
incredibly powerful.
[...]
As for the python... well, I just plain like delimiters in my code. I
might even use it if the authors of python hadn't imposed two pieces of
religion on its users:
No line terminator (e.g. ;)
No {} -- all code grouping MUST be accomplished by indentation.
Violators will be shot. News at 11.
Ugh... you just woke the beast. You will be escorted to the cheeseshop
for your re-education and learn to love blocking-by-indentation, and
learn to eschew those evil editors which reformat things, as they can
break a program ...
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