does anyone know which is the most popular unix scripting language?
xp829
I think you’ll likely find that sh is the winner by rather a long way…
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At 9:23 AM +0900 1/17/03, dambalaMaster wrote:
does anyone know which is the most popular unix scripting language?
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Depends how you look at it, either C or sh :>
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On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 09:23:45AM +0900, dambalaMaster wrote:
does anyone know which is the most popular unix scripting language?
xp829
In article f51c02db.0301161617.3622cfaa@posting.google.com,
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dambalaMaster dorli@hotmail.com wrote:
does anyone know which is the most popular unix scripting language?
xp829
Yes. Several hundreds of thousands of people know, and,
between them, they only come up with about two dozen
different answers.
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dorli@hotmail.com (dambalaMaster) writes:
does anyone know which is the most popular unix scripting language?
/bin/sh
:does anyone know which is the most popular unix scripting language?
:
:xp829
If it looks like a troll and walks like a troll…
… and besides, let’s get back to editor wars where we
all agree that emacs is superior and fits everyone’s
needs and styles.
Floppy disks are dead and so vi has lost it’s saving
grace.
Hello dambalaMaster,
Friday, January 17, 2003, 3:23:45 AM, you wrote:
does anyone know which is the most popular unix scripting language?
bash 
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On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 00:17:14 UTC, dorli@hotmail.com (dambalaMaster) wrote:
does anyone know which is the most popular unix scripting language?
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dambalaMaster wrote:
does anyone know which is the most popular unix scripting language?
No, it’s an indeterminate (at least in any practical sense)…
dambalaMaster wrote:
does anyone know which is the most popular unix scripting language?
Is this defining “popular” to mean “cheap-n-cheerful” the way Ford used to do
with their cars?
Donal.
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at 04:17 PM, dorli@hotmail.com (dambalaMaster) said:
does anyone know which is the most popular unix scripting language?
I’d guess either Perl or Python, although there are a lot of
contenders. Lumping all of the shells together as one contestant might
give you a front runner, depending on what you mean by “popular”.
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In article f51c02db.0301161617.3622cfaa@posting.google.com,
does anyone know which is the most popular unix scripting language?
sh
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sh is sort of like bad breath. A lot of people have it, but it’s not very
popular.
Popular in the sense of “Number of People who know & like it”, I would
say Perl.
Popular in the sense of “Most attractive at first blush”, I would say
Python.
Popular in the sense of “Inspiring the most devoted following”, I would
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On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 9:23 AM +0900 1/17/03, dambalaMaster wrote:
does anyone know which is the most popular unix scripting language?
I think you’ll likely find that sh is the winner by rather a long way…
Mike Tuxford wrote:
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dambalaMaster dorli@hotmail.com wrote:
:does anyone know which is the most popular unix scripting language?
:
:xp829If it looks like a troll and walks like a troll…
… and besides, let’s get back to editor wars where we
all agree that emacs is superior and fits everyone’s
needs and styles.Floppy disks are dead and so vi has lost it’s saving
grace.
A number of people have replied “sh”. I think they meant “Shhhhh!”.
$author = “Herbert Rosenau nospam@dv-rosenau.de” ;
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On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 00:17:14 UTC, dorli@hotmail.com (dambalaMaster) > wrote:
does anyone know which is the most popular unix scripting language?
perl
nup, i reckon you’d have to hand it to:
shell (bash, ksh, zsh etc.etc.)
claird@lairds.com (Cameron Laird) wrote in message news:v2ekbhldaj4mf0@corp.supernews.com…
In article f51c02db.0301161617.3622cfaa@posting.google.com,
does anyone know which is the most popular unix scripting language?
xp829
Yes. Several hundreds of thousands of people know, and,
between them, they only come up with about two dozen
different answers.
Accordind to DICE/monster, Perl IS the hands-down winner. Larry gets
the prize haha… Although javascript is frightenly close. Take heart
though Perlistas- now that the DOJ ordered Mickeysoft to support java,
it’ll be worthless to 90% of the technical community. The
business-geeks will love it though…
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dambalaMaster dorli@hotmail.com wrote:
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ASP 2156 2480 14.90%
Java 2664 1862 14.55%
C++ 2046 1480 11.33%
Visual Basic 2037 1095 10.07%
Perl 925 548 4.73%
Javascript 914 489 4.51%
Cobol 595 532 3.62%
SAS 805 269 3.45%
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at 02:04 AM, tuxfordNOSPAM@NORETURNearthlink.net (Mike Tuxford) said:
… and besides, let’s get back to editor wars where we all agree
that emacs is superior and fits everyone’s
needs and styles.
What you mean we? I want XEDIT with a slight admixture of ISPF.
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Who cares!?!?!?!?!? Haven’t you read the millions of existing replies
to this inane subject!?!?!? Why add another???
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On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, 5:37:32 AM, Shmuel wrote:
In f51c02db.0301161617.3622cfaa@posting.google.com, on 01/16/2003
at 04:17 PM, dorli@hotmail.com (dambalaMaster) said:
does anyone know which is the most popular unix scripting language?
I’d guess either Perl or Python, although there are a lot of
contenders. Lumping all of the shells together as one contestant might
give you a front runner, depending on what you mean by “popular”.
Allodoxaphobia wrote:
does anyone know which is the most popular unix scripting
language?sh
Or, one of it’s derivatives…
Do you count perl as a derivative of sh?
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On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 01:10:43 GMT, Tony L. Svanstrom hath writ: > >> In article f51c02db.0301161617.3622cfaa@posting.google.com, > >> dambalaMaster dorli@hotmail.com wrote:
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$…=‘(?:(?{local$^C=$^C|’.(1<<$_).‘})|)‘for+a…4;
$…=’(?{print+substr"\n !,$^C,1 if $^C<26})(?!)’;
$.=~s’!‘haktrsreltanPJ,r coeueh"’;BEGIN{${“\cH”}
=(1<<21)}“”=~$.;qw(Just another Perl hacker,\n);
In article 1fowrd4.17uarvm2og3v4N%tony@svanstrom.com,
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Tony L. Svanstrom tony@svanstrom.com wrote:
:> In article f51c02db.0301161617.3622cfaa@posting.google.com,
:> dambalaMaster dorli@hotmail.com wrote:
:> >does anyone know which is the most popular unix scripting language?
:sh
Are you measuring by:
A) number of scripts written,
B) enthusiasm level of script authors, or
C) number of distinct script authors?
If you are measuring the number of different script authors, then
my understanding is that the answer is “csh”.
I haven’t seen very many serious csh scripts, and I can’t imagine that
I would ever write a serious script in csh, but there have been
vast number of unix accounts with csh as their default shell, so
there have been large numbers of innocents drawn into it for simple
scripts.
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