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Shell ScriptsShell ScriptsPosted May 5, 2010 22:09 UTC (Wed) by HelloWorld (subscriber, #56129)In reply to: Shell Scripts by k8to Parent article: Poettering: Rethinking PID 1
Right, code is read more often than it is written, and it is executed orders of magnitude more often than it read. Thus, since sane semantics affect execution, they're *much* more important than syntax.
Also, shell scripts are less readable than scheme once you get used to prefix notation. Stuff like ${foo##@(a|b*)} isn't readable by any standards.
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Shell Scripts Posted May 6, 2010 3:15 UTC (Thu) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]
Not by a mile.
I read and write, pretty fluently: shell, scheme, rebol, python, C, lua.
For its specialized domain, shell reads better than the rest. Scheme is definitely the worst.
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