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Re: Accessing Hunt's pwned database.

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On 2019-01-30, Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> writes:
>> On 2019-01-30, Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>> Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> writes:
>>>> maybe there's a better way.
>>>
>>> There is: use a more sensible language than shell.
>>
>> Helpful aren't you?
>> When a hammer is the only tool you have you have to make everything look
>> like a nail.
>
> Personally I prefer to find the right tool for the job. Life’s a lot
> better than way. In this particular case, better-design languages are
> readily available on Linux.
>

It depends on the job. In this case one would have to learn those other
languages first, and that would take days (or weeks or months) and this
problem simply is not worth that time committment on my part. 
Of course if you happen to know other languages, then using them (the
lerning commitment is already in place) is probably a good idea. 
It is like, you have a hammer, and if you were to use some other tool
you would first have to make the tool (eg smelt some steel, create a
rod, and then file down the rod to make a screwdriver). 
It is not the availability of the language, but the knowledge of how to
use the language that is the impediment. 
Plus as I said, I wanted the program to be obvious in what it does, and
I suspect that a bash script is more readable than a perl script say, or
whatever your favourite interpreted language is. Non-interpreted
languages are a no-go because it is impossible for anyone to read the
compiled language and know what it does. 

Anyway, I encourage you to write something in your language of choice
that does what I want to do. 

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Accessing Hunt's pwned database. William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2019-01-29 18:24 +0000
  Re: Accessing Hunt's pwned database. Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2019-01-30 02:54 +0000
  Re: Accessing Hunt's pwned database. Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2019-01-30 08:59 +0000
    Re: Accessing Hunt's pwned database. Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2019-01-30 10:47 +0000
      Re: Accessing Hunt's pwned database. Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2019-01-30 11:05 +0000
        Re: Accessing Hunt's pwned database. William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2019-01-30 18:06 +0000
          Re: Accessing Hunt's pwned database. Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2019-01-30 20:02 +0000
            Re: Accessing Hunt's pwned database. William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2019-01-30 22:41 +0000
              Re: Accessing Hunt's pwned database. Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2019-01-31 08:24 +0000
                Re: Accessing Hunt's pwned database. William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2019-01-31 16:50 +0000
                Re: Accessing Hunt's pwned database. Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2019-02-01 14:19 +0000
                Re: Accessing Hunt's pwned database. Jim Beard <jim.beard@verizon.net> - 2019-02-01 14:45 +0000
                Re: Accessing Hunt's pwned database. Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2019-02-01 15:06 +0000
          Re: Accessing Hunt's pwned database. "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-01-30 23:23 +0100
            Re: Accessing Hunt's pwned database. William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2019-01-30 22:43 +0000
              Re: Accessing Hunt's pwned database. "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-01-31 03:03 +0100
                Re: Accessing Hunt's pwned database. William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2019-01-31 02:11 +0000
      Re: Accessing Hunt's pwned database. William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2019-01-30 20:16 +0000
      Re: Accessing Hunt's pwned database. Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2019-01-31 03:08 +0000
        Re: Accessing Hunt's pwned database. William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2019-01-31 04:18 +0000

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