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I like bash, but I think I understand the hate -- it's the slippery slope of "gluing real applications" to "I can write this all in bash!". Just because you can
by pstuart 9y ago
I like bash, but I think I understand the hate -- it's the slippery slope of "gluing real applications" to "I can write this all in bash!". Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
- s3m4j 9y agoIf the application can be reduced to some form of simple piping of existing programs...
- amptorn 9y agoI enjoy the section of the Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide which explains how Bash has sparse arrays which "are useful in spreadsheet-processing software".[0] Because someone out there is apparently writing spreadsheet-processing software in Bash? [0] http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/arrays.html http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/arrays.html