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Shell programmingShell programmingPosted Dec 10, 2012 0:12 UTC (Mon) by Baylink (subscriber, #755)In reply to: Shell programming by nix Parent article: Quotes of the week
> Your entire argument boils down to 'things that are familiar to me are intrinsically easier to read for everyone than things that are not familiar to me', which is not at all valid.
Exactly.
But the point you make immediately above, which was essentially: debugging is easier because you can merely lop off the end of the pipeline and *look at the data on the terminal*, is the really important one to me.
The best language for anything is very often *the one your programmer understands best*, as that is the one in which s/he'll be most efffective.
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Shell programming Posted Dec 18, 2012 12:25 UTC (Tue) by wookey (subscriber, #5501) [Link]
I think this is the nub of it.
I write stuff in shell because I know how to. After many years I've learned how to deal with many of the horrible things that go wrong, and with a couple of hours of dicking about can usually get what I wanted.
As with others if I know there will be a lot of data manipulation then I'll use perl instead, and know just enough to do that. I avoid writing in python because I don't know how, and worse don't know how to fill in the gaps.
If I'd started writing python 20 years ago things might be different (and I might be more productive - I like shell but I'm not going to claim that it's a _nice_ language)
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