From: Alec Ten Harmsel <alec@alectenharmsel.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] akonadi ... don't you just love it?
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 08:18:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53EB579F.5020300@alectenharmsel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53EB0F5E.7020203@gmail.com>
On Wed 13 Aug 2014 03:10:22 AM EDT, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Bash is also like that, omfg; bash seems to have been designed to make
> decent code fundamentally impossible to write...
I mean, if you're trying to write anything more than a screenful in Bash
you should definitely use Ruby or Python IMNHO. The RVM (Ruby Version
Manager) project recently was raising money to pay a developer to port
~20,000 lines of Bash to Ruby, which is just embarrassing.
> I will refrain from commenting on perl
I wrote 250 lines of perl and forgot how it worked a day later ;) Write
it, ship it, forget about it.
Alec
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-13 12:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-09 20:00 [gentoo-user] akonadi ... don't you just love it? Mick
2014-08-10 9:34 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-08-12 7:05 ` Mick
2014-08-11 18:01 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2014-08-11 21:45 ` Mick
2014-08-12 5:36 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-08-12 6:42 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-08-12 9:10 ` Mick
2014-08-12 12:06 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-08-12 13:28 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-08-12 13:38 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-08-12 14:10 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-08-12 18:21 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2014-08-12 19:00 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-08-12 19:20 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-08-13 6:38 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-08-13 7:10 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-08-13 12:18 ` Alec Ten Harmsel [this message]
2014-08-13 12:26 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-08-11 19:05 ` [gentoo-user] " Mick
2014-08-11 22:21 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-08-12 0:38 ` Rich Freeman
2014-08-12 7:31 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-08-12 8:08 ` Peter Humphrey
2014-08-12 14:38 ` Daniel Frey
2014-08-12 17:54 ` Rich Freeman
2014-08-12 1:00 ` Dale
2014-08-12 7:57 ` Walter Dnes
2014-08-12 8:19 ` Alan McKinnon
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