Cheating at a company group activity using Unix tools

Re:Cheating at a company group activity using Unix tools by smcameron on Monday December 13, 2021 @09:50AM (#29540052)

This is akin to saying if you want to hang a picture in your house, you shouldn't just grab a hammer and a nail, instead, you should get a nice piece of wood, and a nice hunk of metal, go to the workshop, fire up the forge, the mill and various wood and metal working machines, and forge a special picture-hanging-hammerer-thing.

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Re:Cheating at a company group activity using Unix tools by ccalloway on Monday December 13, 2021 @12:00PM (#29541448)

Umm, no, chaining together 5 or more somewhat arcane single-purpose tools is the unrealistic solution here.

If the article was about using ls to just list files, and I had said "actually you should use Python's os.listdir() and filter the results by whatever" you would be right.

For most simple problems it's correct to use a simple tool. For the overwhelming majority of complex problems you should use a well-understood, well-designed, common general-purpose tool.

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Re:Cheating at a company group activity using Unix tools by pessimizer on Monday December 13, 2021 @12:13PM (#29541660)

What's supposed to be the difference between chaining simple UNIX commands and chaining simple python functions again?

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Re:Cheating at a company group activity using Unix tools by Chris2048 on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @07:09AM (#29564855)

How many executables do the two methods require? Do all those executables/programs share a common type system?

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Re:Cheating at a company group activity using Unix tools by ccalloway on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @10:13AM (#29552386)

For example, the latter is testable.

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