Re: Problem with dynamic statement in bash

On 19/01/18 18:18, John Levine wrote:
> In article <p3t3sf$4dc$1_at_dont-email.me>,
> The Natural Philosopher <tnp_at_invalid.invalid> wrote:

>> PHP is a toy language: its OK for fast hacks on web pages but not for
>> serious code...

They ought to find them CHILLING. Wordpress is, after Joomls, the most hacked CMS in the world

>

>> PERL? well sinec all the 'PERL gurus'; I ever met were wankers who
>> couldnt code, I never felt interested to learn it.

My gain.

>

>> Python is apperntly ammost useable, if you must have an interpreted
>> langauge with its implicit garbage [collection] [not].

[Quoted] No, I was commenting on PHP which I use, extensively. Its a toy language. OK for simple scripts on a website.

And PERL, which was all the rage amongst my employees in the 90s

None of them ever produced any useable code in it though.

Wheras the C gurus produced stuff that worked.

> R's,
> John
>
> PS: Other comments about bash are on the right track. You can write all sorts of useful
> stuff but you have to be very careful about quoting and variable expansion.
>

There comes a point where with any complexity, its simpler to write it in C.

Why fight a langauages idosyncracies?

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