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You're not helping your case by pointing out the platform's standard practice for installers is to use a language from the '70s that makes it trivial to write "
by ben509 8y ago
You're not helping your case by pointing out the platform's standard practice for installers is to use a language from the '70s that makes it trivial to write "rm -rf /", and (as that ticket indicates) the command will carefully work its way through all connected devices, including external drives.
- johnchristopher 8y agoYou are not helping your case either by pointing out a dev's inability to handle a well documented language with known pitfalls that has been in use since the 70's. If they can't write bash scripts there are a lot of options to install, update and remove software with built-in fail-safes.
- kazinator 8y agoThat language also makes it trivial to make a safe wrapper function for "rm" which validates the arguments and prevents accidents.