I like this idea a lot.
But why on earth it is written in ruby?! - I know the answer and it is "ok". But it is probably the reason why it won't never gain huge momentum, prove me wrong :)
Doesn't really matter what it's written in as long as its logic is easily extendable by someone who doesn't know Ruby. Preferably without having to code at all.
I knew my reply will be heavily hammered by rubyists. There is nothing wrong in the language but I think that shell tools should be written in C or in some other low level language without complex dependencies over ruby or java or python etc. or any other non-default installation stuff
You're not only being down-voted by Rubyists. For something that deals heavily with string manipulation and isn't speed-sensitive, C is most definitely not the best language to use.
$ for bin in /bin/* /usr/bin/* /usr/local/bin/*; do
> if [[ -f $bin && "$(cat $bin | head -c 2)" == "#!" ]];then
> echo $bin
> fi
> done | wc -l
544
I imagine most of these are written in Perl (though there's surely a fair amount of Python and shell scripting in there, too), but that's still a high-level language with a complex runtime and dependencies compared to C.
To be fair, there's still about twice as many compiled binaries on that box, but having system commands written in a non-C language is by no means an exception.
After the top 10, most were symbolic links. So, seems shell scripts are by far the most common, with perl and python scripts not too far behind, and ruby making a decent appearance.
Thanks for your comments(for all involved in this thread).
For the moment I am living the UK. But also I have lived in France where I used symfony1.4. But now I am a bit lost trying to get my hand in different technologies. Thanks in advance for all.
It would make a nice cross between a dedicated server and a virtual server. You could rent out 20+ "nodes" where each node is a dedicated computer with low performance.
Why not torrent them instead? I mean it: I assume that collecting bogus data doesn't do them any good and torrenting would save the publisher some server load. A script that buys every book, on the other hand, doesn't even contribute to popularity statistics.
I'm just going to go ahead and get just 1 the legit way. However I wish they made some sort of volume discount that wouldn't mean paying £300+ for a 10-15 book collection.
Honestly most of these books are on topics that would make them obsolete quite soon. The real practical use for these is as references across several topics. I understand it's hard to monetise that kind of thing though.
I agree, if you are web designer and you only made some simple effects etc. etc. you should use jquery or plain js.
but if you are software developer etc. and you are creating a web-application you should angular or some other beefier framework, backbone/knockout/ember/whatnot.. or you can just re-invet the wheel
