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Discussion on: Bash is a terrible as a programming language, but what's the alternative ?

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Joe Fehrman

Claiming a language is bad because you can't remember the syntax is a skill issue.

Bash has a dependency management through brew or apt or whatever other stores you use.

Force yourself to solve problems with it and you will see immediately there is some value.

Every language has its quirks.

I've seen just as many criticisms of JavaScript or PHP. All programming languages have trade offs.

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Samuel Boczek

On one hand you have people complaining "PHP is not a real language", on the other hand you have people actually being productive and creating Wordpress, Laravel, Symfony or even the 4 million lines monster of an e-commerce software "Magento"