I’m a software developer so I’ve never seen that thing you’re talking about, but check your sources, I believe it’s actually from 1982: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems

SCCS is from 1972, you young whippersnappers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_Code_Control_System

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#define if while // 🤪

Right, that’s when you should look for a driver language that’s better suited for the job, e. g. Python.

Every database I know comes with an SQL shell that takes commands from stdin and writes query results to stdout. Remember that “bash” never means bash alone, but all the command line tools from cut via jq to awk and beyond … so, that SQL shell would be what you call “bash library”.

Bash is perfectly good for what you’re describing.

Guess it’s “180 or so times”, but it really looks like 50

No

Didn’t know that’s possible. How?

SQL

Or should I say, when this was posted on Usenet. Who knows when it was written.

This is older than many reading here … and C was already old when this was written.

No, these are sqlite temp files, not the database files. McAfee had no control over the temp files.

Replace? MacBook? Er, I‘m afraid I’ve got to tell you something …

A child as a school project using ChatGPT

Got one. Works great. Whether it’s worth the money is yours to decide. Forget their distro (Tuxedo OS or whatever they call it), it works fine with vanilla Ubuntu and probably any other distro of your choice. Just download the ISO from the usual site and install from scratch.

bash is so ubiquitous that I never considered anything else.

Let the code explain the „how“, use comments to explain the „why“.

English is the natural way of communicating with Americans. A lot of people don’t find that natural (because they don’t speak English), but that is their fault, not the Americans‘.