Re: Problem with dynamic statement in bash

On 1/19/2018 1:18 PM, 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...
>
> The people who run Wordpress and Wikipedia would doubtless find your
> assertions to be amusing.
>

You have to understand that TNP is "amusing" - at least to himself. He has never shown an aptitude for programming. That's why he uses a pseudonym.

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

That's because he has no idea on how to code anything.

>> Python is apperntly ammost useable, if you must have an interpreted
>> langauge with its implicit garbage [collection] [not].
>
> Ah, we're opining on languages we don't know and have never used. Well,
> then, let me put in a plug for COMIT and INTERCAL. They were great.
>

Of course he doesn't have any idea on how to program in python, either. But don't let anyone who actually knows python see this.

> 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.
>

Not really. But then even a clock that has stopped is right twice a day.

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