Another tool for updating /etc -- lua||other script language bikeshed

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Fri Mar 26 11:46:19 UTC 2010


Ivan Voras <ivoras at freebsd.org> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> writes:
> > Bourne shell is a perfectly fine programming language if you know
> > how to use it.
> I'll agree that it's fine but only in the abstract - e.g. that it is
> Turing complete :)

Emphasis on "if you know how to use it".  It's like Perl - it's easy to
learn how to write bad Perl or Bourne shell code, but much harder to
learn how to use them properly.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no


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