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A Call For Humor!

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Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace are turning in their graves, and Albert Einstein is surprised that he’s now supposed to have developed the concept of evolution as well.
I always wonder if finds like this are satire—but I’m afraid it might actually be meant seriously.
 
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Two Scots were rowing across the loch after church. The passenger was gloomy and silent, and the guy at the oars said: You look pretty bad, what's wrong?", and was met with silence and a even more gloomy face.

Third time, the passenger was silent for a while, and then he started talking:

Please do tell me:
I've been drunk every weekend since I was twelve, and no one said anything.
Every single time I visited the pub I ended up in a brawl, and all I got was looks.
I've been hung over at every mass since I was twelve, and no one said a word.
I have been cheating on my wife as often as I had the chance, not a word.
I have beaten my wife whenever I was in a bad mood, and everyone ignored it.
....but fuck ONE sheep... ONE!
 
So, my assistant made a joke that really made me LOL and as an experiment I'm sharing it here to see if you like it. It's very nerdy but I think some of y'all will dig it. I'll give the answer first and then the question hidden in a spoiler. If inappropriate I promise not to repeat such behavior here.

sudoers, then tar, then Perl regex.​
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Sudoers pretends to be English (ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL) and is a tiny predicate language with no types, no tests, and a failure mode of “you cannot log in.” That is worse than being ugly.​
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Tar is not a language. It is a tape deck’s front panel: -c/-x/-t/-r/-u are verbs from 1979, -C is a side effect, GNU and BSD disagree, and you can use it for forty years without meeting --append. Shameful CLI, not a grammar.​
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Perl regex is an actual language: composition, a spec of sorts, you can hold a match in your head. It just invited every kitchen widget to live inside (?…), and then everyone else copied the widgets. Excess, not illiteracy.​
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If we are ranking things that look like config and ruin your week, sudoers still wins. Ansible’s YAML+Jinja is the group project version of the same sin.​

Fabulously opinionated and deadpan. The gratuitous dig at Ansible is sysop comic genius.

If this stuff familiar you can probably guess the question, approximately.

yikes. over 40 years using tar and didn't know -r

what's worse in terms of language: tar cli, sudo config, or perl regex?
 
Two Scots were rowing across the loch after church. The passenger was gloomy and silent, and the guy at the oars said: You look pretty bad, what's wrong?", and was met with silence and a even more gloomy face.

Third time, the passenger was silent for a while, and then he started talking:

Please do tell me:
I've been drunk every weekend since I was twelve, and no one said anything.
Every single time I visited the pub I ended up in a brawl, and all I got was looks.
I've been hung over at every mass since I was twelve, and no one said a word.
I have been cheating on my wife as often as I had the chance, not a word.
I have beaten my wife whenever I was in a bad mood, and everyone ignored it.
....but fuck ONE sheep... ONE!
I know him! I know that guy. (I won't name him.) I think @Somafunk knows him too.
 
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