2009/4/24 Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+s...@mega-nerd.com>: > Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > >> As soon as you start needing to crack out the manpage for bash, it's >> time to rewrite in a real language. Shell is for stream processing >> and quick wrappers only, in my book. >> >> I hope I'm preaching to the converted though :) > > My rules for scripting style tasks are something along the lines of: > > - Less than 20 lines, bash is ok. > - Less than 100 lines, python, maybe. > - Otherwise Ocaml or Haskell. > > Does that make me converted?
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