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Re:Why Create a New Unix Shell? by racer-v on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @06:39PM (#16278584)
Gentoo is basically this. I learned Python by writing .ebuilds (their package format is a short Python script that downloads and builds whatever software you're installing).
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Re:Why Create a New Unix Shell? by PuercoPop on Thursday February 01, 2018 @12:29AM (#16279800)
Although emerge is written in python, Afaik ebuilds are bash scripts.
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Re:Why Create a New Unix Shell? by racer-v on Thursday February 01, 2018 @01:41AM (#16280021)
Ah right you are, thanks - I remember learning Python and switching to Gentoo about the same time, but as David Hume warned us, it's hard to infer causality from proximity.
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