Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still be using in 2017?

Re:Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still b... by qu1j0t3 on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @04:14PM (#13313161)

And read the bash manual at least ONCE. (It's not the man page.)

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Re:Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still b... by majewsky on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @03:40AM (#13316669)

But the manpage is useful in itself already: I've been using a lot of

  ${VAR:INDEX}
  ${VAR/PATTERN}
  ${VAR#PATTERN}

etc. in the last few months. It covers a lot of string processing needs in shell scripts that you would otherwise have invoke sed or awk for.

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