On Wed 13 Aug 2014 03:10:22 AM EDT, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Bash is also like that, omfg; bash seems to have been designed to make > decent code fundamentally impossible to write...
I mean, if you're trying to write anything more than a screenful in Bash you should definitely use Ruby or Python IMNHO. The RVM (Ruby Version Manager) project recently was raising money to pay a developer to port ~20,000 lines of Bash to Ruby, which is just embarrassing. > I will refrain from commenting on perl I wrote 250 lines of perl and forgot how it worked a day later ;) Write it, ship it, forget about it. Alec
