On 20/06/13 15:00, Tim Streater wrote:
In article ,
(D.M.Chapman) wrote:

In article ,
Tim Streater wrote:

I use PHP for command scripts, too. Shell stuff is for the birds.

Urghhh! Perl is the correct answer for that stuff (with a bit of bash at
times)

No, perl is even worse than bash etc. Perl's designers need a good smack.

You mean someone actually DESIGNED it?

It always looked to me like some sweaty nerds late night output
surrounded by beer cans and empty pizza boxes where at 3 a.m. he would
jerk off, and go to bed and say 'wow that would be a really cool way of
doing something simple in a massively complicated and impressive way:
I'll add that tomorow after my dull job testing banking software."




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