From: Michael Guterl <mguterl@...>
Date: 2008-08-12T20:53:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Sigh! I'm depressed. Debian vs Ruby and the backtick and subshells

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:37 AM, Phlip <phlip2005@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> build@ws1419:~/AutomatedBuild/test$ ruby -e 'system("ls
>>> NOFILEWITHTHISNAME&>foo")'
>
> Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:
>
>> I am using Debian sid, which sh is bash.
>> And, in fact, I hate ruby's way of system call. Ugly and hard to use and
>> stupid hardcoded.
>
> The choice of `` is deliberate. It's to inspire you to get off your lazy
> butt and learn the Ruby-internal way to do something, such as Pathname.glob.
> There's always a way to avoid a shell command...
>
This is a ridiculous claim.  I'd spend more time writing a response,
but I'm hoping you're just being sarcastic.

Michael Guterl