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I'm just making a general argument about what "simple" means. A well-specified program may or may not be superficially simpler, but it will exhibit simpler beh
by rectang 6y ago
I'm just making a general argument about what "simple" means. A well-specified program may or may not be superficially simpler, but it will exhibit simpler behavior.
- marcosdumay 6y agoOh, ok. The Rust version is at least as simple as the Python one, depending on what kinds of detail you care about. The thing about shell code is that there are plenty of cases where you don't care about things like error management, bad inputs, and etc. So it's not immediately obvious what language is simpler. When you care about those, the shell becomes the most complex choice by far, and that's the duality problem that generates all those different opinions you see around.