Re: Feaping Creature-ism in core Debian Packages
Monday, August 30, 1999, 6:51:16 PM, Branden wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 09:20:59AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
>> In fact, I really dislike shell scripts because they are burdened with a lot
>> of problems and quirks which people who are not accustomed to thinking in
>> shell are likely to spots, much less resolve.
> s/shell/perl/g
Gee, I'm so happy that you snipped the part where I point out the problems
surrounding filenames and the globbing thereof. I can't even remember how
many shell scripts I've rewritten through the years that were broken because
of that.
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