On Friday 10 December 2010 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 03:23:46PM +0100, Diggory Hardy wrote: > > What if bash were only to allow scripts to call themselves with exec? > > You can't prevent programmers from writing horrible code. At some point, > it isn't worth the effort even to try. > No you can't.
To be frank sometimes I try to write nice code and sometimes I just try to hack something to do what I want. The more bugs an interpreter or compiler can catch the better though, particularly with regards to those who are not experts in a language.
