On 08/14/2012 07:30 PM, David Haller wrote:
Hello,
On Tue, 14 Aug 2012, j debert wrote:
I would have said more like Windows and it's monolithic do-everything-under-the-sun style of coding and constant reinventing of the wheel rather than using what is already there and piping between tools. Like, why reinvent sed in python? Just build a script and call sed. Simple, right? There are many existing tools that are not being used because... Why??? Baffling. And what's starting to happen: The tools are disappearing, deprecated because people prefer to reinvent the wheel, do things the hard way, so no one uses them and when you need them, *they're not there anymore!*
Such as? Anyway: I like the *nix style. I use ed if applicable, sed, awk, perl, grep, agrep, sgrep, pcregrep, cut, sort, cat, tac, head, tail, find, xargs, ...
Oh, I think afio is gone from the distro.
There I was, writing the above and trying to remember what it was that was missing... Sorry, I can't recall anymore, other than dc and bc, both of which came back in a much later major rev. And both libtool and autoconf disappeared for a while as well. I do remember how annoying it was to upgrade and then find my scripts didn't work anymore and being dogged by very unhappy bosses wanting to know where their reports were. I eventually managed to use the source to replace them. There has been talk of removing "legacy" tools because they have been around since prehistoric times and are well, just old, y'know. jd -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org