On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:15:42PM CEST, Zenaan Harkness <z...@freedbms.net> said: > On 7/21/14, Erwan David <er...@rail.eu.org> wrote: > >> > 2) You have a specific syntax, and a specific semantics (what does > >> > ExecStart, WantedBy, etc mean), that one must learn in order to simply > >> > read this. The namles of the sections are also meaningfull. All this > >> > defines a full fledge langaue, and I did not find any comprehensive > >> > donc > >> > of the language. Each doc refers to 43 or 4 other docs who refers back > >> > to all the others, making things quite difficult to read when you need > >> > a > >> > complete doc and not only a reference on points that you already > >> > partially know. > >> > >> You have to learn the syntax of any program in order to use it. > >> > >> The LSB headers of a sysvinit script have to be learned. > > > > Yes. SO the argument "it is a simple text file not a shell script" uis > > false. It is as complicated to learn as a shell script. > > Rubbish. Absolute rubbish! You are full of it! > > They're declarative (shell scripts are imperative). > They have no control flow etc (they're declarative). > The number of constructs is trivial compared to shell scripts. > Shell scripts have so many gotchas, so many variants of syntax for the > same types of programming; there's just not comparison.
That makes it a weak language (at least weaker than sh), but a still a language one need to learn. It's just not "a text file". It's a text file with specific syntax and semantics. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140721111524.gj18...@rail.eu.org
