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Nice that these exist—but does anyone else absolutely abhor shell programming? The syntax is impossible to memorize, it’s incredibly easy to make mistakes, and
by nielsbot 2y ago
Nice that these exist—but does anyone else absolutely abhor shell programming? The syntax is impossible to memorize, it’s incredibly easy to make mistakes, and debugging is a pain. I hate it more than C++ and AppleScript.
- ryapric 2y agoI enjoy it quite a lot :shrug: Bash itself isn't a very big language, so I wouldn't call it "impossible to memorize".
- irunmyownemail 2y agoI have around a billion short bash scripts, it's rare I've used an array but it's cool it has it as long as the script doesn't go beyond a few lines.
- nmz 2y agoHave you tried plan9's rc? easy to memorize syntax thing. It's still easy to make mistakes though and nobody uses it.
- layer8 2y agoI find the semantics (e.g. the order in which elements are replaced/parsed/processed) more of a problem than the syntax.
- akvadrako 2y agoIt has some rough edges but bash has the world's best REPL and along with -x that makes debugging quite easy.