Don't get caught up in the hype - the Zen of "The Unix Philosophy"

[Lloyd Kvam]

On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 15:53 -0400, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
> My boss later told me that he estimated that this shell script saved
> the company well over a half-a-million dollars.
> 
> Later, after my night of feverish shell-script hacking, I rewrote the
> script in Perl (because 3000-line shell scripts are hard to grok...)
> and I did lots of other cool stuff with this new version of the
> script.
> 
> If I hadn't been able to easily prototype this thing in terms of a
> shell script, it would have taken me a long, long time to get it
> done...if ever...

Getting that much code to work was quite an achievement for your night's
effort.  Rewriting it in Perl was a great kindness to the person who
inherits the maintenance task.


-- 
Lloyd Kvam
Venix Corp
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