| ▲ | jiggawatts a day ago | |
> Why people don’t just learn cron syntax is beyond me. Because it looks like line noise, is unreadable to anybody not a UNIX/Linux admin, and is a standard in the same sense that the directory separator is the backslash on the majority of deployed desktops and servers. More importantly: It’s also not extensible without being completely changed, which makes it a poor design. Fluent builders can be trivially expanded to support new capabilities without breaking existing code or configuration. Cron’s syntax was likely a quick and nasty thing thrown together by some student at Berkeley or wherever in the stone ages of computing. We shouldn’t be bound by these accidents of history in the same way we shouldn’t keep using Roman numerals these days. | ||
| ▲ | loloquwowndueo a day ago | parent [-] | |
> It’s also not extensible without being completely changed, which makes it a poor design. Fair enough but let’s please not replace it with something where the literal first example in the GitHub read me is ambiguous. | ||