Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Over-Elaborate Shell Scripting Date: 13 Mar 2026 19:24:26 GMT Lines: 12 Message-ID: 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> <10p0st3$30rut$12@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net qXVjdZLAPeGlzlrzKrdHqQKJ7mfPNSZO9hFHcXo8ABwSOR+8eR Cancel-Lock: sha1:Gr29x79aNf+6mE1ZKdeZrfD/3Iw= sha256:6T8rMRtpBn50yA9gV6YulwGr30BPboWKvtaDwJjyP/w= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.unix.shell:26693 comp.os.linux.misc:82928 On Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:37:07 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > My experience is colored by being an employer of coders, and the ones > that knew C produced more in less time than the ones who had mastered > regexps and PERL. Programming rarely used Perl but there was a 'special projects' group that was mostly for site specific implementation and several of the people favored Perl for the setup and maintenance tasks. As time went on that layer was dissolved but their legacy Perl scripts lived on. Programming would disavow all knowledge. Most got the job done but they looked like entries into an obfuscated code contest.