Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2022 18:01:03 -0500
From: Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org>
Message-ID: <YgBTL/hn9gjpz...@wooledge.org>
| I urge you to learn one of these other languages, and use it.
|
| Bash is a shell, not a full general-purpose programming language. It's
| not suited to all tasks. Many other languages are *better* suited to
| various tasks. Using the best language for each task will make your
| life easier.
100% agreement.
Further, for anyone who found learning one programming language hard
enough, and really doesn't want to repeat that, don't worry.
It isn't the programming languages that are hard, it is (or can be)
the programming concepts. Learning a new syntax to do what you already
know how to do is relatively painless (provided you're willing to allow
the new language to be itself, and not expect a clone of something that
you already know - what would be the point?). Getting all of the language
idioms to become 2nd nature can take a while, but anyone who can program
should be able to create programs in any new (relatively similar - ie: don't
jump to a logic programming or lisp style language) language in a couple of
hours.
kre
