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by alexvitkov
1023 days ago
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The fact that you have to learn a new language to parse JSON is frankly insulting. If you've gotten to the point you're parsing JSON with a shell script, you should've switched to a real language a week ago. Some people are weird and awe at the ellegance of piping 8 obscure commands, but if I'm given this shit and have to keep it working, I'm rewriting it on the spot. |
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Sometimes less general tools are nice. If they fit the problem space well, they can be very expressive without feeling unwieldy. And in some contexts reducing the power/expressivity is actually a good thing (e.g. not using a C interpreter to make your program and your config file use the same 'language')