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Andrew
Mar 22, 2013, 7:29:58 AM3/22/13
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On 21 Mar 2013 17:40:31 GMT, E.P.Sporgersi wrote:
> Fucking hell... Why the gibbering fuck do I have to explain to people
> that have no compunction putting "scripting" on their CVs that if you
> have a 300-line shell script that needs to behave slightly differently in
> one situation than it does in the other, the most obvious answer is not
> to write another script that generates two different scripts, one for
> situation #1, and another for situation #2?
>
> But by all means have a meeting about it. Just don't bother inviting me.
If they don't invite you, you won't know when to lock the door and remotely
release the honey badger cage under the conference table. Are these the
same people that don't understand the concept of command line arguments?
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Andrew
IT is a filter. It accepts masochists on stdin and emits misanthropes on
stdout.
> Fucking hell... Why the gibbering fuck do I have to explain to people
> that have no compunction putting "scripting" on their CVs that if you
> have a 300-line shell script that needs to behave slightly differently in
> one situation than it does in the other, the most obvious answer is not
> to write another script that generates two different scripts, one for
> situation #1, and another for situation #2?
>
> But by all means have a meeting about it. Just don't bother inviting me.
If they don't invite you, you won't know when to lock the door and remotely
release the honey badger cage under the conference table. Are these the
same people that don't understand the concept of command line arguments?
--
Andrew
IT is a filter. It accepts masochists on stdin and emits misanthropes on
stdout.
Jim
Mar 22, 2013, 7:35:16 AM3/22/13
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On 2013-03-22, Andrew <and...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 21 Mar 2013 17:40:31 GMT, E.P.Sporgersi wrote:
>
>> Fucking hell... Why the gibbering fuck do I have to explain to people
>> that have no compunction putting "scripting" on their CVs that if you
>> have a 300-line shell script that needs to behave slightly differently in
>> one situation than it does in the other, the most obvious answer is not
>> to write another script that generates two different scripts, one for
>> situation #1, and another for situation #2?
>>
>> But by all means have a meeting about it. Just don't bother inviting me.
>
> If they don't invite you, you won't know when to lock the door and remotely
> release the honey badger cage under the conference table. Are these the
> same people that don't understand the concept of command line arguments?
Or the 'if' statement...
> On 21 Mar 2013 17:40:31 GMT, E.P.Sporgersi wrote:
>
>> Fucking hell... Why the gibbering fuck do I have to explain to people
>> that have no compunction putting "scripting" on their CVs that if you
>> have a 300-line shell script that needs to behave slightly differently in
>> one situation than it does in the other, the most obvious answer is not
>> to write another script that generates two different scripts, one for
>> situation #1, and another for situation #2?
>>
>> But by all means have a meeting about it. Just don't bother inviting me.
>
> If they don't invite you, you won't know when to lock the door and remotely
> release the honey badger cage under the conference table. Are these the
> same people that don't understand the concept of command line arguments?
Jim
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