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This may come as a shock to someone reading HN, but approximately 0.0% (rounded) of all people care about shell programming. Whatever gets programs to run the
by snakeyjake 3y ago
This may come as a shock to someone reading HN, but approximately 0.0% (rounded) of all people care about shell programming.
Whatever gets programs to run the easiest wins. DOS was easier than BASIC.
Hell, I had been using computers for well over a decade to accomplish tasks when they plopped me down in front of a Sun SPARCStation 5 and someone mentioned that the Bourne Shell could automate a bunch of the stuff I was doing.