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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] akonadi ... don't you just love it?
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 14:26:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53EB5986.9030400@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53EB579F.5020300@alectenharmsel.com>

On 13/08/2014 14:18, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
> 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.


I had the pleasure of maintaining an exceptionally well-written bespoke
perl app of 20,000+ lines. Written by an exceptional mathematician with
10+ years of sysadmin experience, that code base was a dream. It all
just made so much sense, perl notwithstanding.

At the same time I also had to maintain another giant 5,000 line
monolithic beast that brought any strong developer to their knees. Oh,
the pain, the pain.

So with perl it can go both ways


-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com



  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-13 12:27 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
2014-08-13 12:26                               ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
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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