On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 07:50:26PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: [] > > Many things in XXI century still can be done by tools founded 20-30 > > years ago. Why not try to? > > Because your shell script is unreadable by normal human beings[*] > while the perl script for people with a bit of perl fu can read it > and fix/modify it. > > We want tools that can be maintained and enhanced by most people. > > [*] Normal human beings are people with same level of shell > scripting/sed skills that I have just to put that straight.
In many cases i think, it's limiting one's imagination and expanding laziness[0]. In the school algebra (usually) there are many exercises with plain-useless equations and formulas you must solve or simplify. Guess why? Thus my proposition. ;) --- [0] Now, when most UNIX tools done with good quality (courtesy of the GNU project), it's time not to convert programmer's laziness[1] to ordinary one. Why there's one big and slow Bourne again shell, yet to have fast ([d]ash) and tiny one took more time? As result more efforts to remove bashizms... [1] Ironically connected to Perl chapter of UNIX Power Tools <http://unix.org.ua/orelly/unix/upt/ch37_02.htm> ____ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ kbuild-devel mailing list kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kbuild-devel