In Linux, I prefer bash for simplicity, until I have to do floating point, or I find myself needing to do more complicated API calls than I want to do with curl. Then I switch to Python.
In Windows, it's Powershell or bust. --Matt On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 9:21 PM, Dave Close <d...@compata.com> wrote: > I am astounded by the number of non-bash scripts I've read that are > nothing more than feel-good wrappers around a set of system() calls > to get real work done. If you're using a scripting language because > it enables you to write a "program" rather than just a series of calls, > then /write/ a program. Otherwise stick to bash. > > Personally, I feel that, in any script, the fewer the exec() calls (of > any type), the better. Processors may get faster but context changes > still add up. > -- > Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 > d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu > "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have > nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free > speech because you have nothing to say." -- Edward Snowden > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ >
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