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Bash is the Basic of our era, the fact that it's so easy to do simple things explains why people are so often ready to use it despite its perceived and real sh
by lambdaba 5y ago
Bash is the Basic of our era, the fact that it's so easy to do simple things explains why people are so often ready to use it despite its perceived and real shortcomings. Hopefully one of the new shells gains enough popularity to "flip" usage and give us a renaissance of powerful scripting interfaces.
- cout 5y agoWhy bash over the browser javascript console? It is everywhere and allows interactive editing of a "program", much like the BASIC interpreters of old.
- lambdaba 5y agoYeah but how do I pipe to other programs? How do I schedule something and integrate it with my filesystem? Also the syntax is complicated (don't underestimate this, for many of us trouble parsing syntax is a distant memory). Also easy interop between many programming languages. Maybe when the browser fully swallows the OS but I hope it won't be JavaScript or it would have morphed into something else.
- mavhc 5y agoBash is terrible, adding an extra space breaks it BASIC is smarter than C, it knows when = means assign and when it means equality