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I’m going to have to disagree here. I’d wager that the average
programmer has a better understanding of writing code that has: a)
proper specifications and design b)
robust error handling c)
strong typing d)
etc Of course, there are always deadlines that result in shoddy
code, and there are certainly some shoddy programmers. But the average scripter
(in my experience) seems to have far fewer clues on how to write robust,
reusable, defensive code than the average programmer. The average scripter
doesn’t know much about IDEs, debugging, source control, unit tests and all the
other goodies that make maintaining large bodies of code easy. There’s nothing wrong with writing scripts – especially for
things that just require a few lines of code. Trying to maintain something that
has 1000+ lines of code is a nightmare when scripted using VBS/JScript Cheers Ken From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Al Mulnick I have to say that's weak logic joe. Well, good logic,
but weak assumptions. Tool writers are no more likely to prevent unforseen
mistakes than a script writer. On the plus side, if you write your own script,
you'll have plenty of time to test it and will have gained a great deal more
knowledge than you previously had. Mostly about how not to do it, but that's
better than figuring that out in production or worse, trusting the tool writer
to have done the work for you and to have guessed what you wanted done. joeware tools excepted in most cases of course ;) On 7/29/06, joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am curious about this statement While you can use the command line tools as much as
possible, as joe and Guido both pointed out, consider rolling your own scripts
if you absolutely cannot do what you *need* to do at the GUI. In general, scripts are more dangerous than the command line tools
because there are a lot of screwups you can make in a script that a tool may
not make because hopefully a full blown tool writer understand the
permissioning model and the dev work behind it than a script writer. It is
quite easy to use a script and to add 30 duplicate ACEs to an ACL. I can't
count the number of times I have seen things like that. There is no guarantee
that a commandline tool won't do the same but there are fewer and hopefully
more experienced people writing command line tools than scripts. |
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