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I was thinking about this question and agree, it's a good one. Just out of curiosity: How would you react if my answer is: Shell?
by CaptainZapp 15y ago
I was thinking about this question and agree, it's a good one.
Just out of curiosity: How would you react if my answer is: Shell?
- jerf 15y agoThen I would hope to hear something about dangerous quoting or difficulties in abstracting things or how it affords some fairly dangerous practices and writing rock-solid shell scripts takes disproportional effort vs. other languages or possibly how it can be slow if you're not careful, though I'd consider that a last-tier objection. But it would be a bit of a bizarre choice. I would expect it only if you were coming out of a sysadmin position transitioning to a developer. (Which I've seen, so I don't mean that as some sort of implicit impossibility.)
- CaptainZapp 15y agoActually I'm coming from database programming, primarily in SQL, where scripting can add immense value to whatever you're up to. That said, I very much agree with your sentiments and it does require effort to write resilient, maintainable scripts. Nevertheless, for my day to day work it's probably the most useful "language".
- Danieru 15y agoI imagine he would say 'What are the weaknesses of bash scripting?'