Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Sb, 11 oct 14, 21:40:49, Steve Litt wrote:
From my viewpoint, shellscripts were never intended to be big, huge
programs. To me, they just glue together commands, and have a few
rudimentary branching and looping constructs.
Isn't that like buying IKEA furniture, but when you get home you realise
all those little plastic bags with screws and mounting pieces are
missing? I will say this:
Any program that requires additional scripting just to get it
running is insufficiently advanced.
(you can quote me on that)
Maybe if you're in a desktop environment. If you're managing servers
and services, one tends to wire together multiple services, often in
environment-specific ways - and it's very common to write "glue" scripts.
Seems to me that a big part of the issue is increasing use of Debian
(and Linux in general) on the desktop. It seems like desktop support is
driving more and more design decisions.
Miles Fidelman
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