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On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Peter da Silva wrote:
> > I'd say that OS X is not-quite-entirely unrelated to essentially any other
> > Unix OS.
>
> SystemStarter is not the same as /etc/rc.conf, but that stuff is
> different for every system. And Netinfo isn't YP or PAM, but that
> stuff is different for everything too. Mostly it looks just about
> every other Mach/BSD merge I've ever futzed with.
Except that I specialize in automation. Specifically, centralized
automation of system installation and management. My skills with
Jumpstart, Kickstart, cfengine, etc., are the ones I rely on most, and
those skills are largely useless on Mac OS X. Conversely, equivalent
skills developed on OS X are useless on other platforms. So it doesn't
really work out the same, unless I get rid of all of the Netinfo stuff
(which I'm not even sure is possible) and stop using Aqua, which seems
silly.
> > At least when I
> > struggle through linux crap I can reuse that knowledge at work, but when I
> > struggle through OS X crap (you know, netinfo, maintaining resource forks
> > in CLI tools, that kind of thing) it will never help me at work.
>
> So don't struggle with that crap, just use it. I mean, what's BeOS going
> to do for you?
Heck, at this point, what's any OS going to do for me? I often don't
know...
> > "What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that
> > people have stopped banging their heads against?"
> > --Larry Wall in <1992Aug26.184221.29627@xxxxxxx.xxx>
>
> No. Perl has great roaring turbines of suck that I'm tired of banging my head
> against. BTDT been turned into a thin red mist.
I've recently switched (where possible) to ruby, and although ruby's got
some suck, it's generally pretty sweet.
Luke
--
Really? He might do it just for fun. I know I would. If I were God,
I'd get together with all my other God friends and have a big party.
We'd all get drunk and create unliftable rocks, then try to lift them.
It would be loads of fun! Then I'd probably just destroy the rocks
with a lightning bolt. Then I'd probably pass out. :^)
-- toMM, in rec.puzzles
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