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Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)Posted Dec 9, 2011 13:06 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)In reply to: Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks) by HelloWorld Parent article: Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)
by that logic, no languange should ever be used for programming
people keep trying to produce things that can be extended to do things that weren't initially programmed in via config files of various kinds, but evenutally every one of these config files grows into (or adopts) some sort of programming language.
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Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks) Posted Dec 9, 2011 13:23 UTC (Fri) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]
> by that logic, no languange should ever be used for programming
Well, this is not a binary thing. The thing is that in order to write reliable shell scripts, you need to jump through hoops *all the time* (i. e. every time you use a glob, every time you use sed in a locale other than the one you have tested your script with etc.) in order to stop bad things from happening.
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