Subj : Pascal Tutor?
To   : Tony Langdon
From : Karel Kral
Date : Mon May 11 2020 07:28:08

Hello Tony!

09 May 20 17:14, you wrote to me:

 KK>> If something is missing in Win for me, I simply program it ;-)

 TL> I would like to be able to get b ack to then, these days, I've been
 TL> more of a Bash script hacker. :D

Similar here ;-) Why to even bother with perl/python - if it is possible to do it in bash. Part time collegue wants to know something? grep log | awk | sed | cut and that it is. Ah, he needs that every Sunday? crontab -e... But this I do not call "programming" ;-)

But OK.

For example - recently, I needed simple sorting of movies. (parse .nfo, get genre-actors-length-etc from imbd [no api, simple GET] and create Junctions [similar to linux links] on NTFS pointing to AVI/MP4/etc. - that my wife can simply click e.g. on actors name and see what is there) I started with bash and there were many obstacles. Even that NTFS bothered me. But with Delphi? It was smooth. (I added also other links like csfd for .cz specials, to detect subtitles, detect RAR, etc. etc.) I know, there are KODI and similar things. But I needed something simple, knowing what it is doing, specific in certain fuctions.

Another example - I still remember one guy, who changed IO.SYS that time, due to the fact that his harddrive had one head failing (to skip bad sectors quickly). I know is different level, but one thing there is in common. We needed it, we did it by ourselves.

Karel

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