> but if you write shell in a principled manner, you can solve some pretty big problems with ease, and you can write maintainable code.
So if you are extremely good at writing shell, and you write it extremely carefully, then you can achieve basically what you can do in other languages without those caveats?
It sounds like we both agree that shell is not a sensible choice for scripting, for most people, then.
So if you are extremely good at writing shell, and you write it extremely carefully, then you can achieve basically what you can do in other languages without those caveats?
It sounds like we both agree that shell is not a sensible choice for scripting, for most people, then.