Bash is a bad programming language

#1

Post by yolodeveloper » Thu, Jan 10, 2019, 2:42 PM UTC

Bash is a bad programming language
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Re: Bash is a bad programming language

#2

Post by jezfromfuture » Thu, Jan 10, 2019, 2:44 PM UTC

oh dear.

Re: Bash is a bad programming language

#3

Post by simonblack » Thu, Jan 10, 2019, 11:30 PM UTC

"Stop using unportable sed/awk/readline/sh/ksh/csh black magic."

Anybody considering those tools to be 'black magic' is very likely to be a non-unix person. There are several quotes for the benefit of people like that:

"Contrary to popular belief, Unix is user friendly. It just happens to be very selective about who it decides to make friends with. -- unknown"

"Those who do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. -- Henry Spencer, programmer"

Re: Bash is a bad programming language

#4

Post by yolodeveloper » Fri, Jan 11, 2019, 10:10 AM UTC

simonblack wrote: post #3

"Stop using unportable sed/awk/readline/sh/ksh/csh black magic." Anybody considering those tools to be 'black magic' is very likely to be a non-unix person. There are several quotes for the benefit of people like that: "Contrary to popular belief, Unix is user friendly. It just happens to be very selective about who it decides to make friends with. -- unknown" "Those who do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinve…

Nothing wrong with awk. I have serious beef with people who are writing scripts using them and not aware of portability issues, tho.