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That's like using a horse instead of a mule. Just not worth it. Move away from the whole equine world and use a real programming language.
by emmelaich 3y ago
That's like using a horse instead of a mule. Just not worth it. Move away from the whole equine world and use a real programming language.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoEh, there are things that shell is really good at, and there are things that other languages are good at. I will grant that shell is best for glue code; my personal heuristic is that I stick to POSIX sh, and if that hurts then I take that as a sign that I should be considering moving to Python or whatever. But avoiding it completely strikes me as a poor choice, because for the "glue together separate programs and manipulate files" tasks that it's meant for, it's really good and IMO everything else still falls short.