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Shell scripts are readable by just about anyone, they're available on every UNIX system, not just the Red Hat/Debian-derivatives of the last twenty years, they'
by kick 7y ago
Shell scripts are readable by just about anyone, they're available on every UNIX system, not just the Red Hat/Debian-derivatives of the last twenty years, they're fast as long as you're not doing stupid things, they're easily maintainable, they don't handle dependencies terribly (unlike Python), and so forth.
There's a reason AT&T used to run ads that showed their secretaries, managers, and so on using and writing shell scripts and there's never been a Python ad claiming that just anyone could write it.
- tristanstcyr 7y agoIs this because both languages are from different eras? When did you last see a consumer ad about scripting?
- AlphaSite 7y agoHaving seen many professionals writing shell scripts. No they can’t.
- sjy 7y ago> Shell scripts are readable by just about anyone I reckon that less than 0.1% of the population can read shell scripts.
- hnlmorg 7y agoI don't think that's a far comment. It was a different era with different expectations about computer user. The equivalent these days would probably be Excel macros