On Monday 05 December 2016 12:23:31 Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > > On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 3:53 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > >> In recent years, I've been disillusioned with bash and started > >> using Python more and more where I would previously have used bash. > >> Python's explicit syntax does automatically give you a level of > >> security, but I must say the subprocess.Popen.communicate syntax is > >> painful as hell. Your traditional one-liners turn into five-liners, > >> and a casual observer will have a slightly hard time understanding > >> what's going on. > > > > Congratulations. You've just discovered why bash is useful. > > Bash is nice, too nice. It makes it easy to write code that's riddled > with security holes. The glorious Unix tradition is to ignore the > pitfalls and forge ahead come what may. > > > Marko
I like bash, use it a lot. But the ultimate language (damn the security considerations real or imagined) is still ARexx. The *nixes have not, 20 years later, a do it all language that can play on the same field with ARexx. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
