Re:Red Hat Expecting X.org to “Go into Hard Maintenance Mode...
by DonHopkins on Friday June 28, 2019 @03:05PM
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>shell scripts aren't even meant to be used for floating point computation
There you go with the passive voice again. I ask you yet again: WHO didn't mean for shell scripts to be used for floating point computation? Citations, please?
>I haven't read any of his books nor i see what he has to do with it.
He wrote "The [Brainf]Art of Unix Programming". Since you claimed to understand the "Unix Philosophy", I assume you would have at least heard of the book written by one of the self-proclaimed experts on the topic, which has a whole section including 17 rules in the Wikipedia page on "Unix Philosophy". How long have you been philosophizing away about Unix anyway? Have you seriously never heard of that book?
Bash is no true Scotsman, huh? Bash doesn't follow the Unix Philosophy. Csh doesn't follow the Unix Philosophy. Sh doesn't follow the Unix Philosophy. Yet they are all historically the predominant shell scripting languages of the Unix versions of their time. Can you name ONE popular Unix shell that DOES actually follow the Unix Philosophy? Or does the Unix Philosophy not apply to shells? And who said so?
The "Unix Philosophy" is after-the fact rationalization and bullshit. If the main way to program it is shell scripting, but none of the official shells actually follow the Unix Philosophy, then where does that leave you?
There you go with the passive voice again. I ask you yet again: WHO didn't mean for shell scripts to be used for floating point computation? Citations, please?
>I haven't read any of his books nor i see what he has to do with it.
He wrote "The [Brainf]Art of Unix Programming". Since you claimed to understand the "Unix Philosophy", I assume you would have at least heard of the book written by one of the self-proclaimed experts on the topic, which has a whole section including 17 rules in the Wikipedia page on "Unix Philosophy". How long have you been philosophizing away about Unix anyway? Have you seriously never heard of that book?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy#Eric_Raymond's...
>Bash doesn't follow the Unix Philosophy.
Bash is no true Scotsman, huh? Bash doesn't follow the Unix Philosophy. Csh doesn't follow the Unix Philosophy. Sh doesn't follow the Unix Philosophy. Yet they are all historically the predominant shell scripting languages of the Unix versions of their time. Can you name ONE popular Unix shell that DOES actually follow the Unix Philosophy? Or does the Unix Philosophy not apply to shells? And who said so?
The "Unix Philosophy" is after-the fact rationalization and bullshit. If the main way to program it is shell scripting, but none of the official shells actually follow the Unix Philosophy, then where does that leave you?