Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)
Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)
Posted Dec 9, 2011 13:23 UTC (Fri) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129)In reply to: Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks) by dlang
Parent article: Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)
> 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.
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.