Subj : Re: Pascal Tutor?
To   : Karel Kral
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Mon May 11 2020 16:22:00

-=> On 05-11-20 07:28, Karel Kral wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 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

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

Yeah, more scripting. :)  I have actually written a remote base controller for
ham radio using Hamlib, thelinkbox, a few GNU utilities (bc, sed, etc) and a
heap of Bash scripting. :)  Why?  I didn't like any of the offerings out there,
most of which required Windows on the server end at the time (I tend to run
Linux there), were proprietary or lacked the platform flexibility that I
wanted.  My solution is very lightweight and flexible. :)

And in recent times, I added some "idiot proofing" to make it harder for me to
accidentally set it up in a way that causes problem for radio users. :)  It
doesn't actually _stop_ me from setting up those configurations, but it does
force me to pause and think, before I do so, because I have to do those riskier
parts separately

 KK> etc.) I know, there are KODI and similar things. But I needed something
 KK> simple, knowing what it is doing, specific in certain fuctions.

Yeah, sometimes rolling your own in Bash is a better fit. :)

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

Yep. :)


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