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> What a wild irony that all the ickiest parts of UNIX--shells and scripts and autoconf and all that stringly-typed pipe stuff, ended up becoming (IMHO) the mos

> What a wild irony that all the ickiest parts of UNIX--shells and scripts and autoconf and all that stringly-typed pipe stuff, ended up becoming (IMHO) the most reusable, pluggable programming environment yet devised... I increasingly believe any shell script over ~128 “symbols” should be re-written in a “real” programming language. I’ll gladly take a slightly longer Python, Go, or Rust “script” over Bash hell every day of the week.

calgoo 3y ago
These days, apart from python, I end up rewriting a lot of bash in ansible as that’s what a lot of infrastructure engineers know and it’s somewhat decent at running the code.