modern programming is like,
"if you're using bongo.rs to parse http headers, you will need to also install bepis to get buffered read support. but please note that bepis switched to using sasquatch for parallel tokenization as of version 0.0.67, so you will need the bongo-sasquatch extension crate as well."
old-time programming is like,
"i made a typo in this function in 1993. theo de raadt got so angry he punched a wall when he saw it. for ABI compatibility reasons, we shan't fix the typo."
@morenonatural @chexum @saddestrobots I usually end up writing a python script or an executable and just running those on the command line.
One time I was asked to parse JSON in a bash script. They recommended that I used sed. I normally do as asked, but that time I just wrote a Python script because all the build servers had it. They accepted it, though. They apparently never thought of it.
@saddestrobots @scottmichaud particularly ps!!
GNU ps seems to have an extremely weird idea of what "BSD ps" is and refuses to operate in "BSD mode" if you use dashes on your options; it just flat out chokes if you use some combinations of options, going "noooo you can't mix GNU and BSD styles!!". Meanwhile OpenBSD ps uses dashes on options perfectly fine and doesn't have any complications like this at all.
"find" vs. "find ." *grr*
My blood boils everytime. :<
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