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Re:Amazon Worker Jumps Off Company Building After E-Mail to ... by dagw on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @06:09AM (#13062310)
Why? Do you think it weird that most Windows user couldn't write a .bat script? I've worked support at a large university that used Unix as its main desktop OS for staff and students in most departments. I'd bet that most people there couldn't write bash script. 90+% of peoples interaction with the OS was click browser icon, click e-mail icon, click text editor icon and click icon/type in name at command prompt of whatever programs they needed to get work done. Writing bash scripts is simply not something that ever came up for the vast majority of users.
Re:Amazon Worker Jumps Off Company Building After E-Mail to ... by shawabawa3 on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @07:03AM (#13062512)
Aren't we talking about software engineers not just generic users?

I would be very surprised if an engineer working primarily in windows couldn't write a .bat/powershell script

Re:Amazon Worker Jumps Off Company Building After E-Mail to ... by Dayshine on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @10:15AM (#13063489)
I can use powershell.

Never had to write a script, whatever for?

Re:Amazon Worker Jumps Off Company Building After E-Mail to ... by dagw on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @07:26AM (#13062603)
I wouldn't. I work with lots of (non-software) engineers and I bet that most of them couldn't produce an non-trivial .bat without a lot of googling.
Re:Amazon Worker Jumps Off Company Building After E-Mail to ... by subway on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @08:26AM (#13062867)
I'm pretty sure the structural engineer next to me has no clue wtf a script is. Fortunately this conversation is about software engineers.
Re:Amazon Worker Jumps Off Company Building After E-Mail to ... by dagw on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @08:46AM (#13062964)
Actually this conversation is about "anyone exposed to a Unix system", of which software engineers is a small subset.
Re:Amazon Worker Jumps Off Company Building After E-Mail to ... by kefka on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @07:56AM (#13062729)
I guess that's the superiority of Linux admins. I'being one of them, can write scripts in bash, python, perl, and plenty of other langs. And just recently, taught myself powershell as well. Screwedup-LangwithLongKeywords...