"Lauri Alanko" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm going to get a bit religious here:
> anything longer than a screenful shouldn't be written in shell ...

Whence cometh this religion?  I've heard of a modularity principle
wherein no one function, in any language, ought to be longer than a
page, but what's special about shell that warrants such a further
restriction?

BTW, to adherents of the mentioned religion, this:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster/files/Attic/portmaster.sh.in?rev=2.32;content-type=text/plain
-- at just under 3600 lines -- is likely one of the greater heresies
around :)
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