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Re:Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still b... by LeoPanthera on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @09:16PM (#13315141)
I'm not proud of it (and I'm not going to share the code) but I wrote a CMS for a medium-traffic site entirely in bash and standard unix tools like awk/grep.

It should be an absolute clusterfuck but it's been surprisingly reliable and performant, to the point where I have no desire to replace it.

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Re:Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still b... by voltagex_ on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @09:36PM (#13315224)
If you can't show the code, can you give any info about the overall design of it? I can't even think how you'd structure a "large" application in shell scripts.
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Re:Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still b... by LeoPanthera on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @01:34AM (#13316142)
It runs as a cgi, and uses files on disk instead of a database.
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Re:Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still b... by athenot on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @08:12AM (#13317942)
This is how many web apps in 1999 ran. As long as you treat your inputs carefully and properly handle file locking, there's nothing inherently bad about that approach.
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Re:Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still b... by anonymousjunior on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @10:16PM (#13315385)
A lot of cron
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