Until reading this post, I had never heard anyone say bash was hard to learn. I've been writing software for 18 years.
Learning is not the issue, debugging is the issue.
I don't know how many times I have written shell scripts that worked until someone use a file that has a space in it, or something equally stupid...
It's like YAML where you have everything working and then the world falls apart because you have added a space.
And there is this feeling that it will never get better, I did the same kind of mistakes 20 years ago
Apparently OPS people are good at that, but I have PTSD
bashdb.sourceforge.net/
It is just like debugging anything else
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Until reading this post, I had never heard anyone say bash was hard to learn. I've been writing software for 18 years.
Learning is not the issue, debugging is the issue.
I don't know how many times I have written shell scripts that worked until someone use a file that has a space in it, or something equally stupid...
It's like YAML where you have everything working and then the world falls apart because you have added a space.
And there is this feeling that it will never get better, I did the same kind of mistakes 20 years ago
Apparently OPS people are good at that, but I have PTSD
bashdb.sourceforge.net/
It is just like debugging anything else