Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!emory!mephisto!mcnc!rti!dg-rtp!dg-rtp.dg.com!goudreau From: goudreau@dg-rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: bourne shell query Message-ID: <1990Sep7.194320.27259@dg-rtp.dg.com> Date: 7 Sep 90 19:43:20 GMT References: <26DC6447.15922@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <8446@orca.wv.tek.com> Sender: usenet@dg-rtp.dg.com (Usenet Administration) Reply-To: goudreau@dg-rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau) Organization: Data General Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC Lines: 33 In article , scott@tab00.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Yelich) writes: > > |> Sometimes people program for the ART of it (Oh no! Did I say that?) > |> for instance, which do you prefer? Which do you consider better > > My wife and I have for a long time had an inside joke: "I can't > understand > it. It must be Art." I never thought I'd apply it to a shell > script... > > Please read the charter [?] for this group! > > I believe programming is an art... and if you program in sh, then > that can be an art too. So let me get this straight: Making shell scripts needlessly obscure (i.e., no increase in either functionality or performance, and a downright *decrease* in readability) is supposed to be a *good thing* ??!! Call it "art" if you will, and feel free to start a rec.arts.shell newsgroup. I prefer to call it "bad software engineering". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bob Goudreau +1 919 248 6231 Data General Corporation 62 Alexander Drive goudreau@dg-rtp.dg.com Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 ...!mcnc!rti!xyzzy!goudreau USA