dChan - Q Origins Project Archive

so we are on a technology push today on account of the ghandra drop last night (at midnight which is very late for me to start downloading software).

during the hiatus over the summer I took a lot of time studying Bash, and ended up studying Python. But both are important. C is great (C is also C++ so . . . )

and being a code head I tend to think 'what is easiest to do in what language'.

Well BASH is a glue. So you need to learn it with an emphasis on POSIX compatibility if you are writing code to reuse (don't worry it's not that hard to do that if needed).

and what did I discover about BASH?

that some of the things that seemed half way there years ago (when I studied it to a point to learn what I needed) were vastly better now with new releases!

I discovered that common system things to do were greatly eased by the use of the xargs functionality which I'd never clued in on before.

and also, of course, regular expressions are very very important to master (and what 'flavor' they are).

see what it is that we write code that writes code that writes code that writes code . . . I can go on with it.

so you need to know how to have your data, know what your data is, how much data you have, how you can store your data ,how you can protect it, how you can manage it so that you don't waste all your resources. How you can manipulate it to best effect.

and then when you do all that, how you can remember about it being there, something cool that you made and did and it piles up, over time, all those drawings and pages and pictures and views of some made up thing . . .

and am I to believe that my giga byte production methods are all saved by some wonk in a dark room wiht a glowing screen and that they might know what I'm on about?

Like some guy lik eAG assigned to watch me and make me fall in love with being good and caring for other s. pysopped into being a real person for the rest of time? we could hope for this. Most are good.