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Bash and Python are effectively the same age. Python is 30 years old and Bash is 31.

• nmfisher 7y ago
  True, but I don't think Python really eclipsed Bash in terms of popularity (or Perl, for that matter) until much, much later. I've always thought of Bash as the "traditional" approach to gluing binaries/pipes together. Bash has been a staple of most Linux distributions for as long as I can remember, but Python only seemed to start being packaged as default in the mid-2000s (or at least, that's the impression I have. My memory could be failing me).
• ncmncm 7y ago
  Bash is largely a reimplementation of ksh, which is just an extention of sh. Pretty much anything in bash would be written much the same way in sh, which dates from, when, 1972? So, no, bash and Python are not the same age, in practice.