2014/10/12 23:07 "Andrei POPESCU" <andreimpope...@gmail.com>: > > 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.
s/advanced/customized/ Or you could talk about the difference between the jobs of distributor and integrator, if you're completely anti-DIY. > [...] Although, some of us don't really care all that much for IKEA furniture. Joel Rees Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens. All is a stream of text flowing from the past into the future.
