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I once worked in an R shop where a lot of “system scripts” were written in R instead of shell. It made sense: everyone could read R, not many could read bash/s

I once worked in an R shop where a lot of “system scripts” were written in R instead of shell. It made sense: everyone could read R, not many could read bash/shell as most had learned R on a windows PC in grad school of statistics. So while sometimes a bit clumsy and not very portable, these scripts could be read by anyone.

JoBrad 5y ago
This is really huge. If a script is going to be used by anyone other than yourself, it needs to be readily accessible (e.g. understood) for the group that will be using it.