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'customized systems (kernel)..FreeBSD..bare metal': Which is what most of us still do if we care about performance for a single application. Running openmp fortran code for both ho…

Do you really think the python popen() workalike with optional shell inclusion is better than running in a shell? More secure perhaps? Easier to read? I forced a developer from my …

For what? Is it faster than (g)awk? How about sed? How about dd? How about any of the thousands of tools in userspace that you wrap in bash and are faster than python at the same t…

Would never use python in lieu of curl/jq for json handling unless I am writing something more complicated than a shell script. catch 22.

Balderdash and hokum. z=1 ; while test ${z} -lt 4 ; do a=${RANDOM:1:3} ; dd if=/dev/urandom count=12 bs=4 of=${a} && b=$(cat ${a}) && echo ${b:$(expr 1 + ${RANDOM} % 4):12} ; ((z++…

This is the kind of ignorance (just use python for anything it's better + and discover subprocess(): it's great) that burns me up. Not so many years ago actively insisting that pyt…

If you don't care about dealing with the headaches of enterprise/corporate and know what you are getting into then sure. Not for me. I've tried multiple times after 15 years in var…

Authority is the problem...not standardization and portability. Everyone is willing and able to tell you the best way to do your work if you use their tools. Straitjacketing implem…

I disagree with you wholeheartedly and without condition. Not only are you discounting how much time it takes to learn how to program effectively in a real 'glue' language you are …

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