Re: Invalid Operating System

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From: Yossi Kreinin
Subject: Re: Invalid Operating System
Date: 16:33 on 11 Dec 2006
> 
> I understand. Proper error handling is hard

In Python, Java, C#, LISP and such you'd get a stack trace. That's hateful, but 
way better than errno 20, and works for the laziest programmer. BTW, that's one 
advantage of a programming language over a shitload of "small tools doing their 
job well" (or not so small and not so well) glued together with pipes and 
filters. I prefer debugging an embedded system with no OS over debugging a set 
of *sh scripts on any day.

> 
> Anything that causes pain when using scripts running it with 
> #!/*bin/tcsh is good. Writing scripts in tcsh is so hateful that 
> anything that hastens the day when hordes of angry users descend on the 
> programmers who did it and string them up by their own guts should be 
> heartily encouraged.
> 

I hate software, not people. This reasoning justifies terrorism in the spirit of 
the worst of BOFHs. What about replacing tcsh with a program rebooting the 
system when not in interactive mode?

Here we have a piece of shite, named tcsh. The distributors of the shite should 
at least try to keep it in one piece, instead of smearing it all over the place.



There's stuff above here

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