larry a price wrote:
> Am I unique in thinking that shells are very good for some things
> but are not that great as programming languages...
Not at all. I defy you to find a million-line software project
written in a shell.
> I know that for me if a shell script grows longer than a couple of lines
> or gets to involve anything much more complex than a grep I start looking
> at it in terms of "how could I do this in Python".
My personal bin directory contains:
54 Bourne shell scripts. Average length: 12 lines.
24 Perl scripts. Average length: 60 lines.
2 C/C++ programs that I wrote. Lengths: 24 and 109 lines.
> True, if I were looking at widely distributing a piece of software and it
> needed a startup script I would go through the hurt of /bin/sh and
> figuring out the old-school way of doing things.
Yup.
> but in my day to day life the shell is an interface, not a programming
> language... and while it's necessary for it to be a programming language
> it's optimized to be an interface.
Yup.
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Bob Miller K<bob>
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