This reminds me of another time... Let's travel back to 1980 and interview a local grey beard:
Everything these days is shell scripts! They are even selling them like they have the same value as a C program! csh will never be real C. The kids have no idea what a stack is or how to optimize system calls. The performance is awful and they barely work! The way scripts spawn processes can bring a multi-user terminal system to its knees!
I mean, sure, I write some scripts now and then, but the real logic always goes in C. And just the other day my boss gave me a shell script he coded over the weekend and said putting it in production should be easy!
Over the weekend I was checking out BSD and I couldn't believe the number of scripts I found. I fear for the future of my career and computer science in general. Our field might die out before it can even get off the ground.
Everything these days is shell scripts! They are even selling them like they have the same value as a C program! csh will never be real C. The kids have no idea what a stack is or how to optimize system calls. The performance is awful and they barely work! The way scripts spawn processes can bring a multi-user terminal system to its knees!
I mean, sure, I write some scripts now and then, but the real logic always goes in C. And just the other day my boss gave me a shell script he coded over the weekend and said putting it in production should be easy!
Over the weekend I was checking out BSD and I couldn't believe the number of scripts I found. I fear for the future of my career and computer science in general. Our field might die out before it can even get off the ground.