From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6437813877A for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2014 12:18:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2EC47E0B65; Wed, 13 Aug 2014 12:18:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com (out3-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.27]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 36B04E0B3B for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2014 12:18:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.internal [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DFE031484 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2014 08:18:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 13 Aug 2014 08:18:31 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=mGTvPVfLw1FP0SMBc9DKNW YHOwk=; b=cWgCvHvTxtP/ojUguqq004RVoOGp56ggMPFEMzkRASr2VBQNDdzXfT cPXQDt/XMrXDHceADNHHQxu0XSYrQ3ZI0knGm8D46IGtdve9AESFh3TYYWc1qAL6 aLvWZpDnBA0sCf1Z89jVpxFwPX8oRTjkJcwT39oHYVphAqBiZmjxM= X-Sasl-enc: c3ojfFTwv9AwhR64kd92eAwOQ4E1YKopG1OXZHDtk8N2 1407932310 Received: from [35.2.113.167] (unknown [35.2.113.167]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id B8EE8C007C5 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2014 08:18:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <53EB579F.5020300@alectenharmsel.com> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 08:18:39 -0400 From: Alec Ten Harmsel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] akonadi ... don't you just love it? References: <201408092100.58965.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <93a075f9-f022-4051-a7eb-3d6e67561e9a@email.android.com> <53EA691B.2040306@gmail.com> <3173296.k7lA9hJYeK@andromeda> <53EB0F5E.7020203@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <53EB0F5E.7020203@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 048f0303-8b59-4848-bb63-fccf2626f3bb X-Archives-Hash: 6d31a94b5a839c008ea08d5f3a877154 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