Oh man, I’ve just picked it up, it’s really amazing, the compiler just holds your hand every step of the way, have you tried it yet? You really should.

Yeah, in hindsight, if I were a billionaire I’d be in my garage with some nice machine tools making stuff or coding for fun or any number of things I enjoy more than business.

Think I’d be the other way. All meetings before noon and then give me the afternoon to do shit I enjoy.

Love the idea of the challenge, my issue would be lack of a validator tool to confirm I’d completed the challenge - any suggestions?

I am serious and don’t call me Shirley

You had me at perl!

Of they’ve replaced it they might be open to the idea of freeing up the source code?

Yeah, I can see how that could go wrong, in practice it’s used to alias a python version python2 to python and impacts about 10 build scripts. (Which should be rewritten, but no-one is going to prioritise that work)

Which one?

Wouldn’t that require me to have access to everyone’s home directory and need to dump the scripts in everyone’s?

Potentially I could set up an alt bin directory everyone has access to and configure that in the shared profile, the only drawback there is it might be less obvious whats going on if something breaks and someone else needs to take a look at it.

Mostly because there’s a profile everyone sources that’s relatively straightforward to that’s straightforward to get access to. Whereas I’d never get root level access.

I use aliases for renaming commands and making bash scripts look like real commands to the rest of my team.