Bash programming enhancements - worthwhile! [LWN.net]

Bash programming enhancements - worthwhile!

Posted Aug 10, 2004 14:44 UTC (Tue) by mwilck (subscriber, #1966)
In reply to: Bash programming enhancements - worthwhile? by giraffedata
Parent article: Bash 3.0 released

The shell is superior to all of these if a program

doesn't handle complex data structures
carries out many file system activities like searching and moving files or manipulating text files
makes much use of command line programs e.g. from the Unix tool box

Maybe some time in the future all text files will be XML and the file system will be replaced by a CORBA interface to some data base. I hope that happens after I retire.

P.S. did you really mean Java ? Ever seen a shell that needs a 30MB VM to be loaded before it can print "hello world!" ?

Martin, not looking forward to object-oriented bash programming but still seeing room for enhancements.