On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
> The most significant attraction of Linux/Unix for me is how easy > it is to do "cheap programming" - shell scripts, perl scripts, etc. > I am a mediocre programmer, but with Linux and a little bit of > knowledge I am able to automate many small tasks. This usually > means that I forget how to run some commands, because I have buried > them in scripts in /usr/local/bin or ~/bin . Since I can *read* the > scripts later on (especially if I add a few lines of comments) that > is actually an automated way to remember stuff without wasting a > lot of attention on it. > > Many PLUG members seem to spend most of their time in GUI-land. > Which is good, if all the visual metaphors are consistent and the > right tools are available. But it is much harder to automate > small hacks that way - you become dependent on others who are > skilled with gtk or qt and c++, who spend days to months polishing > their creations with check boxes and options. > > So, I'm curious ... how many of us know enough to write quick shell > scripts? How many of us know how to write quick 5 minute GUI hacks? > > Perhaps I can help teach some scripting, and learn some GUI hacking > from others. The real value of open source systems is that they > empower us to create, not just consume. > > Keith > > -- > Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 > KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" > Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > I don't know any GUI hacks =) I spend more time in a shell than I do in GUI land so I guess I'm different from others on the list. I learned on Slackware which at the time and to a point still requires more use of a shell than say Ubuntu or Potato Soup or whatever Debian is called these days ;-) I write plenty of little maintenance scripts here and there for things dumping mysql databases and simple tar backups and the like. Drew- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
