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| From | Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: Opinion on best practice... |
| Date | 2013-02-06 12:37 -0500 |
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On Wed, 6 Feb 2013 17:16:04 +1100, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
>
> It feels silly enough translating this OS/2 batch script:
>
> @logon SOME_USER /pSOME_PASS /vl
> @e:\rexx\load
> @db2 start database manager
> @exit
>
> into this REXX script:
>
> /* */
> "@logon SOME_USER /pSOME_PASS /vl"
> "@e:\rexx\load"
> "@db2 start database manager"
> "@exit"
>
> And that's a change I've made myriad times (to \startup.cmd on many an
> OS/2 boot drive) It's far far worse translating it into Python, Pike,
> or any other "good language".
>
Though that is the nice feature of REXX*... Anything that wasn't
parsable as a REXX statement was automatically sent to the current
command processor.
Converting such to Python turns into a mishmash of (pick your
favorite) os.system(), subprocess.Popen(), etc. with their particulars
of how to pass command line arguments.
* {the Amiga variant was really powerful as it didn't take much to
code an application so that it could be a command processor, including
another ARexx script}
--
Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN
wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/
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