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The fact that your shell is not a programming language is not a real gripe. Treat your shell as a shell and you'll be fine.
by erikbye 9y ago
The fact that your shell is not a programming language is not a real gripe. Treat your shell as a shell and you'll be fine.
- Houshalter 9y agoOk sure, but being able to perform operations on a bunch of files shouldn't be hard in a shell language. And mathematical operations are an incredibly basic thing that are necessary for almost anything. And why is it so wrong for the shell to be a decent programming language? It's not impossible. It doesn't need to make anything harder or more complicated. And it adds a ton of functionality. There are tons of people programming in Bash and powershell anyway.