Re:Cups Printing System Open-Source Development Has Seemingl...
by znpy on Thursday October 15, 2020 @06:15AM
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I used to print some very long shell scripts at my previous employer when I was newly hired.
I sat there most of a morning with a rubber, a mechanical pencil and a highlighter and worked my way through the code.
It felt very good to have made sense of the whole thing to a reasonable level of detail.
I highlighted the key tokens, variables and function names and took notes on the side of the pages (sometimes in the back too).
It felt very very good.
Some of my colleagues where true masters of shellscript, some scripts were remarkable for what they achieved, along with both error checking and error recovery. I've learnt a lot that morning just by looking up commands and syntax I didn't know at the time.
I sat there most of a morning with a rubber, a mechanical pencil and a highlighter and worked my way through the code.
It felt very good to have made sense of the whole thing to a reasonable level of detail.
I highlighted the key tokens, variables and function names and took notes on the side of the pages (sometimes in the back too).
It felt very very good.
Some of my colleagues where true masters of shellscript, some scripts were remarkable for what they achieved, along with both error checking and error recovery. I've learnt a lot that morning just by looking up commands and syntax I didn't know at the time.