That depends a lot on when they started.

When I first installed a distribution where the base system only came with nano instead of standard editors, I was very confused (and very disappointed that this whas what they’d come up with as a “friendly” interface).

I’m still waiting for the release of 100% A1 written software.

(Spoiler: when it comes, it will have been heavily edited by meat popsicles).

You mean I can’t just

import * from * 

And be done with it? How inefficient!

There are several shell scripts that I’ve written in even less than ten days!

US people like to give everything a different name. They often repurpose names from elsewhere thus bringing much confusion to online spaces. It’s their thing.

After several decades, you’d think they’d be at vii already!

I see you’ve never used emacs.

Maybe. I’m fine with my Linux machines though.

I quit using it in the WfW days and never looked back.

I keep forgetting windows exists.

For a bit of glue, a shell script is fine. A start script, some small utility gadget…

With python, you’re not even sure that the right version is installed unless you ship it with the script.

You have, look up the SuSE songs.

They’re all programming languages, they all have their places.

Back when I did a lot of Perl, those were okay-ish to parse. Nowadays, not so much. I guess it’s like Bash. If you write a lot of it (maybe some people do), it’s probably simple. If it’s only once every six months or less, eeehhh…
It all boils down to familiarity, which comes from repetitiveness.

So the alternative is:

• either an obtuse script that works everywhere, or
• a legible script that only works on your machine…

Easy. Just rip each blu-ray to its own hard drive. It makes filing easier too.

Wow, hadn’t thought of that thing in ages. Now all we need is for B1FF to bring back ASCII sword signatures.

I thought of Latin, but then some people actually speak it, so they’d have an unfair advantage.

The localisation of office software functions is atrocious in all languages. They should have defaulted to Volapuk, so that at least we could all suffer together.

Isn’t Fortran more or less Basic with Maths?