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February 25, 2008
throwaway
i had a simple, one-time, throwaway task at work today, and i used python to do it.
it seemed a little odd writing a python throwaway script. the system i built and work on at work is a 24/7 availability distributed system with a web front-end, implemented 100% in python. none of it is "throwaway".
i don't think i've written a throwaway script in a year. it felt weird to use a scripting language for... well, scripting.
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find / | sed 's/oh crap, why can't sed regexpes work like perl's? who has time to remember multiple regexp languages?/just script it in python/'
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