jim_bailie

Lua and AWK. I'm inspired! I'm going to rewrite the Perl 5 interpreter in Go. Take that Larry. Just kidding.

I'm all for scratching an itch, but why rewrite all these well established tools?

Check out Ace Editor too: https://ace.c9.io/

Nice, but too cool

Very good insight. WP should take your words to heart.

That's like asking why atheists are still uncomfortable with religious faith and spirituality.

It's ironic and tragically funny that all the comments in support of this article's premise and of the successes of the current administration are being grayed out.

Yeah, yeah. Just venting. The products I work on aren't the most important, but they certainly are quite important and most of the testing infrastructure that has been built thus far has a lot of goofy sh@t in it.

I just don't have a high tolerance for needless complexity and gee-whiz-look-what-I-can-do while the clock is running.

Oh boy, I would give your comment an infinite number of up-votes. Yes, testing has reached fetish-like levels.

Some of the test code I've encountered recently has been more voluminous, complex and has taken more man hours to develop and maintain than the application or library it's assigned to.

For the love of God, develop the damned software! It's either going to work or it's not.

Sure they do! I would just refer you to the CATO site to have your pick of thoughtful, well researched articles. Now you run off and have a read and come back with a link if you find a specific article that doesn't meet your specifications.

I'm also curious why you wouldn't read anything from CATO.

Ha, unfortunately I am.

I hate yahoo and all these evil companies with their personal data collection fetishes.

Antirez, don't worry about it! It's a very effective and accurate phrase that inflames a small minority of overly vocal folks who are irritated that the double standard in left-leaning western media is now becoming better understood. Anyway, enough of that, thanks again for your incredible contribution to humanity.

I actually agree whole-heartedly with this comment.

But I wouldn't have written with such a dismissive tone to a living software god :-)

Anyway, Lua was a fine choice!