On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 07:45:56PM +0200, Oleg Verych wrote: > While i'm against whitespace damaged files or patches since my very > first patch, and don't like brain damaged programmer's tools called > text editors, i also want to encourage UNIX-way of using userspace. > > Of course, i might be wrong and foolish. Anyway, what i'm trying to do > is not to become new generation of Visual Perl#(R) implemented in > Java(R) using XML with userspace, that suck. > > Many things in XXI century still can be done by tools founded 20-30 > years ago. Why not try to? Because your shell script is unreadable by normal human beings[*] while the perl script for people with a bit of perl fu can read it and fix/modify it. We want tools that can be maintained and enhanced by most people. [*] Normal human beings are people with same level of shell scripting/sed skills that I have just to put that straight. Sam - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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