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Who cares if Python can technically do it? If you have a CLI tool based around Bash, why would you want to rewrite it in Python and have to support it yourself
by partiallypro 10y ago
Who cares if Python can technically do it? If you have a CLI tool based around Bash, why would you want to rewrite it in Python and have to support it yourself and spend those man hours doing it?
- acchow 10y agoBecause then you wouldn't have to write in Bash...
- uranusjr 10y agoOr BAT. I can live (reluctantly) with Bash, but Windows batch file is just brutal.
- nomel 10y agoThe context of this article and all of these comments is writing new scripts, not rewriting old scripts. If you have a completed script that does everything you want, then none of this applies.