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>Impossible to memorize? I wrote all these examples from memory. Yes. And people can site Pi to the 10.000 digit. Doesn't make it any less useless.
by pretoriusB 14y ago
>Impossible to memorize? I wrote all these examples from memory.
Yes. And people can site Pi to the 10.000 digit. Doesn't make it any less useless.
- redbad 14y agoThe arguments to common UNIX commandline tools like sed or xargs are without doubt going to be longer-lived than the arguments to your helper script, likely even longer than the language your helper script was written in, and maybe even longer than the idioms and philosophies you had in mind when you were building your tool(s). Calling the basic operation of these cornerstones "useless" speaks more about your disposition than the tools, I think.
- pretoriusB 14y ago>The arguments to common UNIX commandline tools like sed or xargs are without doubt going to be longer-lived than the arguments to your helper script, likely even longer than the language your helper script was written in, and maybe even longer than the idioms and philosophies you had in mind when you were building your tool(s). Yes. Sad isn't it? It's not as if they were perfect when the were designed.