Re^2: What is your favourite Linux scripting or programming language?

If you look at Github actions, they are shell scripts where each command is stored as a list entry in a YAML file. I'm not sure why they didn't go with simple shell scripts, but it seems that about every one of these CI things starts out as "simple YAML file" and evolves into a shell script, except stored in YAML.

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Re^3: What is your favourite Linux scripting or programming language? by choroba (Cardinal) on Jan 25, 2021 at 16:56 UTC
IIRC, storing scripts in an XML document indicating what interpreter to use for each snippet was patented by Microsoft years ago, but YAML might still be free to use ;-) `map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]\|\|0,1}[\\|\|{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^ARGV,3]`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: What is your favourite Linux scripting or programming language? by jcb (Parson) on Jan 26, 2021 at 02:42 UTC
patented by Microsoft years ago How many years ago? (As in, "Has the patent on that bad idea expired yet?")	[reply]
Re^5: What is your favourite Linux scripting or programming language? by choroba (Cardinal) on Jan 26, 2021 at 09:20 UTC
This article is from 2004 and was the first google hit for "microsoft patent xml script". We used XML a lot at work at that time and it was a hot topic for several weeks. `map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]\|\|0,1}[\\|\|{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^ARGV,3]`	[reply] [d/l]