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Comment by rascul

> Bash should be considered an esoteric programming language. Shell Programming Considered Harmful.

I disagree. Bash is fine. Nothing esoteric about it.

> It's hard to program, and easy to make mistakes in. It should be left as a tool of last resort.

It's easy to program, but it has a learning curve. Use shellcheck. It's OK to go first to bash if you need a shell script. Other languages make pretty crappy shell scripts.

parent rascul 4 years ago

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