> On 2014 Nov 18, at 07:56 , Brad Beyenhof <bbeyen...@icloud.com> wrote: > > Indeed. When we had a PowerShell presentation at our local LOPSA chapter, all > the *nix guys were really salivating. If only we could get bash to return > everything as an object rather than needing to mangle lots of text-based > program output with awk or Perl!
A data structure doesn't an object make, and trying to pass methods from one program to another is just a recipe for pain (often because the sysadmin and dev disagree about what should be possible, and the sec admin needs something neither the dev nor sysadmin ever imagined, so the methods don't line up correctly, and getting an interface to convert is much more difficult with data structures than raw text.) I've lived that pain more than once. That said, ksh has some pretty slick object oriented functionality and can pass objects around easily enough if you prefer. It's also much faster than bash. ---- "The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue." Edward R Murrow (1964) Mark McCullough mark.mc...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
