Articles tagged ‘programming’

Bash is an important and even critical software project. Yet it’s a shame that the project does not always keep its examples and illustrations up to date or even accurate.

A technical note on using custom Bash script co-processing to generate and sort web access latencies for a user supplied list of hosts. It demonstrates a co-processing scheme that supports multiple, simultaneous co-processes and works in all versions of Bash.

Dr Niklaus Wirth’s pioneering work on languages like Pascal, Modula-2 and Oberon are shining examples of simplicity and elegance. In a recent lecture in California, this path-breaker voiced his disapproval for the unwieldy nature of today’s programming languages and called for a return to the basics.

Contributions to computing by people like Knuth have made open source software a robust and serious solution for all.