Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Ames Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Over-Elaborate Shell Scripting Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:21:32 -0700 Organization: A place where nothing fits quite right Lines: 13 Message-ID: <20260316082132.00002254@gmail.com> References: <10otpi4$1opu8$3@dont-email.me> <10otrqi$1p9ft$1@dont-email.me> <10ou2q9$1qp29$1@dont-email.me> <10oucet$vo4d$2@news.xmission.com> <10ouhk5$22anv$1@dont-email.me> <20260312095816.00001163@gmail.com> <69b33726@news.ausics.net> <20260313080000.00004c23@gmail.com> <10p1cg9$3an5p$4@dont-email.me> <20260313092610.000065be@gmail.com> <10p1mva$3g8pp$1@dont-email.me> <20260313122129.00007909@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:21:36 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b96d210bb9b7e4f52c9bdf68dfef7d27"; logging-data="2088422"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+T4uOHSlScJL6T6lIZOdHUAj+fbH8UMaM=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:cxX4zgDKC9HSp2LtfEjXemSuQu0= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.3.0 (GTK 3.24.42; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Xref: csiph.com comp.unix.shell:26773 comp.os.linux.misc:83113 On 14 Mar 2026 02:35:23 GMT rbowman wrote: > We had a programmer who loved PHP (Personal Home Page). I dipped into > the code a couple of times trying to do minor fixes and it wasn't > pretty. Definitely would not class it as one of my favorite languages (and I've heard tell that it was even jankier in the Bad Old Days,) but for simple HTML preprocessor duties it does the job well enough. If I were trying to build any kind of large-scale Web application I'd probably be more inclined to think about my options and choice of tooling.