On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Eric S. Raymond <esr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As a general scripting language shell sucks *really badly* compared to > anything new-school. Performance, portability, you name it, it's a > mess. It's not so much the shell interpreters itself that are the > portabilty problem, but (as Magnus implicitly points out) all those > userland dependencies on sed and tr and awk and even variants of > expr(!) that get dragged in the second you try to get any actual work > done. Somehow it has worked perfectly fine for us. Also, you are ignoring all the advantages that shell has and python does not. > Can we cease behaving like we're still pounding keys on 110-baud > teletypes now? Some old-school Unix habits have persisted long past > the point that they're even remotely sane. Shell programming at any > volume above a few lines of throwaway code is one of them - it's > *nuts* and we should *stop doing it*. Yes, let's all switch to ruby! Nah, everybody is still using Unix and shells, they work. If they didn't, we wouldn't be having this conversation. What is the big problem? Somebody said we hit a few issues per year? I've already hit more than that writing code for python just the last month. Cheers. -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html