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People, we've gotta stop naming things after generic jargon. This is probably the 5th or 6th "Dash" named product I've seen in the last 2 years. There's: Das
by RickS 9y ago
People, we've gotta stop naming things after generic jargon.
This is probably the 5th or 6th "Dash" named product I've seen in the last 2 years.
There's:
Dash, the amazon order button
Dash, the offline API docs
Dash, the prepaid debit card
Dash, the restaurant payment service (acquired)
Dash, the OP's link
and probably a few more I'm forgetting.
- dragonwriter 9y agoWell, I seem to recall (but can't find) Dash, the programming language, and then there was Dash, the programming language from Google, which got renamed “Dart” because of the conflict, and there's now a newer Dash programming language [0]. [0] For the last of the three, http://www.dashplay.net http://www.dashplay.net
- yes_or_gnome 9y agoDASH (Debian Alchemist SHell). I believe it's the default shell for Debian and Ubuntu (I'm a Fedora/CentOS user myself). I remember hitting some edge cases where some bespoke shell scripts don't work correctly on Ubuntu because DASH is a "slim" Bash alternative, so it doesn't have all the "bashisms".
- lwf 9y agoMore specifically, it aims to be POSIX `sh`-compatible, which gives a large speed boost in many cases. There's a `checkbashisms` command in Debian's `devscripts` package to ensure scripts will work correctly under both shells.
- eriknstr 9y ago> I remember hitting some edge cases where some bespoke shell scripts don't work correctly on Ubuntu because DASH is a "slim" Bash alternative, so it doesn't have all the "bashisms". People say that, but usually the reason their scripts are not working is that they are using bashisms while retaining #!/usr/bin/env sh or #!/bin/sh rather than doing as they should when writing shell scripts that are using bash features; #!/usr/bin/env bash I think it boils down to a lot of people being unaware of the difference between what is POSIX compliant and what is not, or even that there is such a distinction to be made. I write most of my shell scripts targeting bash, but I always use the hashbang that invokes to bash, and I also name my scripts like somescript.bash when it's a bash script and somescript.sh when it's POSIX shell.
- abrkn 9y agoAlso a crypto currency[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash_(cryptocurrency) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash_(cryptocurrency)
- aikinai 9y agoThere's also DASH, the MPEG streaming protocol.
- knopkop 9y agoThere's also DASH, the washing powder.
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