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ddephor
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One thing my dev years have showed me through various systems:
The world is held together by masses of scripts. And most of them are horribly bad, unmaintainable, extremely complex and usually not replaced on requirement changes, but extended by other terrible scripts to get the desired behaviour.

Windows is based on tons of shitty batch scripts, powershell madness, WSH bullshit and VBS absurdity.
GNU/Linux is build upon trillions of incomprehensible shell scripts, heaps of python gizmo and perl mysteries.
Every complex system I've seen uses batch or shell scripts to fire up its runtime.

And it doesn't seem to get any better, so let's face it, we're doomed.

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  • 3
    I have a good idea. Why don't we create a clean and simple operating system once and for all-

    https://xkcd.com/927/
  • 1
    @GMR516 haha, exactly this xkcd came into my mind before I even clicked the link! Good one 🤣
  • 1
    @GMR516 one of my favorite xkcd 😆

    Problem is, I've written tons if those scripts myself, just because 'it has always been done this way' or it was the fastest way to finish the task.
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