Scripts I wrote that I use all the time

Re:Scripts I wrote that I use all the time by Mikhail_Edoshin on Thursday October 23, 2025 @12:09AM (#45678082)

Given the nature of current operating systems and applications, do you think the idea of “one tool doing one job well” has been abandoned? If so, do you think a return to this model would help bring some innovation back to software development?

Rob Pike: Those days are dead and gone and the eulogy was delivered by Perl.

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Re:Scripts I wrote that I use all the time by president_zippy on Thursday October 23, 2025 @01:46AM (#45678541)

But was the eulogy written in Perl poetry? I see it everywhere, but I don't know who this JAPH guy is. It's a strange way of spelling Jeff, and it's odd that he types his name in all caps, but he has published a remarkable quantity of works and he's even more famous than the anonymous hacker known as 4chan.

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Re:Scripts I wrote that I use all the time by npodbielski on Thursday October 23, 2025 @09:17AM (#45681454)

Oh I hate that paradigm. Well, maybe chmod and ls rsync and curl all do they OWN thing very well but every time I am using one of those tools I have to remember if i.e. more detailed response is -v or maybe -vvv or --verbose or -x for some reason because maintainer felt like it at 2:32 in the morning 17 years ago... Some consistency would help, but... Probably it is impossible the flame war over -R being recursive or read-only would never end.

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