Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: GNU Date: 27 Mar 2026 20:44:46 GMT Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <10ojmjv$2ashr$1@dont-email.me> <10q03vf$1o2ev$1@dont-email.me> <10q0c18$1qua9$1@dont-email.me> <10q0f40$1s10c$1@dont-email.me> <10q1etr$9gh8$1@artemis.inf.ed.ac.uk> <10q2o3v$nqm7$1@news1.tnib.de> <10q3kgr$2val0$1@dont-email.me> <1774547182-12588@newsgrouper.org> <10q5n8b$3kugt$7@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net YAMMaBEGvNGZ8L0SqNHX7wMA93vB4bV4ns/FNYuVs/a+MS/+sE Cancel-Lock: sha1:q2BtOHFx7F656YKXe2RD99RN3LA= sha256:Z1lIczbrf+ZdlwvngVMwCqY4sJalu14TY5UJewtpZSw= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:84212 On Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:47:39 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 27/03/2026 07:03, rbowman wrote: >> On Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:41:00 +0000, Hibou wrote: >> >>> Oh, I was and remain fond of C, especially for twiddling data at a low >>> level and interacting with Unix and its derivatives - yea, even unto >>> favouring the C-shell. (I never really took to the syntax of Bourne or >>> Bourne Again.) >> >> I used tcsh until it became apparent all Linux distros were using bash. >> I converted a few of my aliases to the function format required by bash >> for my .bashrc but never did any scripting for the shell. I could >> accomplish what I wanted to do with Python. > > I solved that problem by not using shell at all wherever possible Since > my job was to write code and manage Unix machines of any flavour, > I learned that they all came with a C compiler and vi... And now almost all come with Python. C still is my goto but if I'm going to query a REST API, parse out the JSON return, and make it presentable Python saves a lot of boilerplate.