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2024-03-04 13:30:46

scy on Nostr: I just saw someone rant about "people writing shell scripts" and, no hard feelings, ...

I just saw someone rant about "people writing shell scripts" and, no hard feelings, but I have yet to find a mainstream programming language that allows me to build streaming data pipelines as efficiently and effortlessly as a shell script.

Sure it's not typesafe and can be hard to read and it's easy to build a clever solution that you yourself won't be able to understand anymore in three months…

…and that's when it dawned on me that this is how Perl programmers must have felt 15 years ago.
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