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I think people used to compare to established standard and detractors are always there to point out missing stuffs, giving impression that Octave or Scilab are behind. Coming with a radical different language, R was condemned to quickly succeed or perish, and anyway avoid direct and frontal comparisons.
Far less true than with Perl.
In another hand, many questions I asked about Python came with various way to do the stuff. So I'm not sure about that advertisement.
Or worse then, like idiots that cannot understand a simple sentence and write back « YES »
For running scripts from a library, I've used ByJG's automate.sh[1] that call'em recipes. Unlike z-run, they're bash only and there's no select menu and looks simpler.
> Sequentially, one after the other,
> […] Ansible does things sequentially too.
No, call to nodes aren't sequential, but by parallel batches where tasks are sequential. Here's an interesting reading on those aspects: https://ansiblefrombasics.blogspot.com/2017/09/serial-limit-...
> I don't know that a full parser for Boolean logic is necessary - even having a complimentary `-T` option that takes mandatory tag names might be enough.
Here's how the targeted concurrent is doing it: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/intro_pat...
For massive remote executions, I often use dssh[2] program or similar.
I think that tricorder belongs to that later category and isn't a true library of scripts dispatcher.
\section[short title in toc]{very very long title at page}
and stared version. Those two things, Markdown cannot do, show the power of that syntax ovec simple bangs starting the line.