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James's team has a pretty complicated deployment process implemented as a series of bash scripts. The deployment is complicated, the scripts doing the deployment are complicated, and failures mid-deployment are common. That means they need to gracefully roll back, and they way they do that is by making backup copies of the modified files.

This is how they do that.

DATE=`date '+%Y%m%d'` BACKUPDIR=`dirname ${DESTINATION}`/backup if [ ! -d $BACKUPDIR ] then echo "Creating backup directory ..." mkdir -p $BACKUPDIR fi FILENAME=`basename ${DESTINATION}` BACKUPFILETYPE=${BACKUPDIR}/${FILENAME}.${DATE} BACKUPFILE=${BACKUPFILETYPE}-1 if [ -f ${BACKUPFILE} ] || [ -f ${BACKUPFILE}.gz ] ; then BACKUPFILE=${BACKUPFILETYPE}-2 ; fi if [ -f ${BACKUPFILE} ] || [ -f ${BACKUPFILE}.gz ] ; then BACKUPFILE=${BACKUPFILETYPE}-3 ; fi if [ -f ${BACKUPFILE} ] || [ -f ${BACKUPFILE}.gz ] ; then BACKUPFILE=${BACKUPFILETYPE}-4 ; fi if [ -f ${BACKUPFILE} ] || [ -f ${BACKUPFILE}.gz ] ; then BACKUPFILE=${BACKUPFILETYPE}-5 ; fi if [ -f ${BACKUPFILE} ] || [ -f ${BACKUPFILE}.gz ] ; then BACKUPFILE=${BACKUPFILETYPE}-6 ; fi if [ -f ${BACKUPFILE} ] || [ -f ${BACKUPFILE}.gz ] ; then BACKUPFILE=${BACKUPFILETYPE}-7 ; fi if [ -f ${BACKUPFILE} ] || [ -f ${BACKUPFILE}.gz ] ; then BACKUPFILE=${BACKUPFILETYPE}-8 ; fi if [ -f ${BACKUPFILE} ] || [ -f ${BACKUPFILE}.gz ] ; then BACKUPFILE=${BACKUPFILETYPE}-9 ; fi if [ -f ${BACKUPFILE} ] || [ -f ${BACKUPFILE}.gz ] ; then cat <<EOF You have already had 9 rates releases in one day. ${BACKUPFILE} already exists, do it manually !!! EOF exit 2 fi

Look, I know that loops in bash can be annoying, but they're not that annoying.

This code creates a backup directory (if it doesn't already exist), and then creates a file name for the file we're about to backup, in the form OriginalName.Ymd-n.gz. It tests to see if this file exists, and if it does, it increments n by one. It does this until either it finds a file name that doesn't exist, or it hits 9, at which point it gives you a delightfully passive aggressive message:

You have already had 9 rates releases in one day. ${BACKUPFILE} already exists, do it manually !!!

Yeah, do it manually. Now, admittedly, I don't think a lot of folks want to do more than 9 releases in a given day, but there's no reason why they couldn't just keep trying until they find a good filename. Or even better, require each release to have an identifier (like the commit or build number or whatever) and then use that for the filenames.

Of course, just fixing this copy doesn't address the real WTF, because we laid out the real WTF in the first paragraph: deployment is a series of complicated bash scripts doing complicated steps that can fail all the time. I've worked in places like that, and it's always a nightmare. There are better tools! Our very own Alex has his product, of course, but there are a million ways to get your builds repeatable and reliable that don't involve BuildMaster but also don't involve fragile scripts. Please, please use one of those.

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An anonymous reader shared this report from InfoWorld: Tiobe CEO Paul Jansen says Ada, a system programming language whose initial development dates back to the late 1970s, could outlast similarly aged languages like Visual Basic, Perl, and Fortran in the language popularity race. In comments on this month's Tiobe language popularity index, posted July 9, Jansen said the index has not seen much change among leading languages such as Python, C#, and Java over the past two years. But there is more movement among older languages such as Visual Basic, SQL, Fortran, Ada, Perl, and Delphi, said Jansen. Every time one of these languages is expected to stay in the top 10, it is replaced by another language, he said. Even more remarkably, newer languages have yet to rise above them. "Where are Rust, Kotlin, Dart, and Julia? Apparently, established languages are hot." "Which one will win? Honestly, this is very hard to tell," Jansen writes, "but I would put my bets on Ada. With the ever-stronger demands on security, Ada is, as a system programming language in the safety-critical domain, likely the best survivor." Perhaps proving his point, one year ago, Ada was ranked #24 — but on this month's index it ranks #9. (Whereas the eight languages above it all remain in the exact same positions they held a year ago...) PythonC++CJavaC#JavaScriptGoVisual BasicAdaDelphi/Object Pascal

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