Its always been bash for me. Sure its annoying sometimes, but its pretty portable between Linux distros and even Unixes (like OS X).
Though there are times when I want something more powerful, so I think I need to start learning Python for those situations. > On May 12, 2016, at 18:38, Yves Dorfsman <y...@zioup.com> wrote: > > > A lot of people love to hate bash, and there are good reasons for it, but it > seems that there isn't an obvious replacement for it. > > At some point it looked like perl was going to be it, then depending on the > local preferences some shops use either python or ruby, heavy JVM shop often > use groovy, while more and more shops now even use js or go... > > I find bash (or any other UNIX shell) much more natural for simple scripts, I > don't even mind all gotchas (set -e, super weak typing, every var is gobal, > etc..), but do hate how bad it is to manipulate data, and the difficulty to > organize code. > > What do *you* use? Do you see any clear winner to replace it on the horizon? > > -- > http://yves.zioup.com > gpg: 4096R/32B0F416 > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
