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

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DasFluchen

Am I missing something here or are you referring to something other than the UNIX SHELL?

I have to laugh at you modern-day warriors whining about something that's probably older than most of you. Personally, I've always used C shell but that's just 1 old man's opinion. Until you've debugged memory allocation issues with DBX, please with your outrage! It's petty!

Your answer might be PERL. It's your basic C or PHP syntax and is powerful enough to 86 SED and AWK via a single command. If you're complaining about the limited time when you use BASH with your repo check-ins, please write a COBOL program to calculate the compound interest of a 30-year mortgage. No, please do .. your head will explode!