I got tired of PHP and Perl, so I tried bash

Re:I got tired of PHP and Perl, so I tried bash by DyslexicAtheist on Saturday April 13, 2019 @04:26AM (#19651757)

nice one. this is my favorite way of learning languages. find it really hard going step by step through a book from scratch and my fingers get really itchy and want to skip ahead into solving real problems. my result is usually a lot worse than what you built there.

seems a lot of effort and iterations went into this?

I have seen quite a bit of legacy plumbing like this in production / automation until better (or at least standardized) tooling came along with the agile/devops movement. A lot of this plumbing survived surprisingly long (which is also scary). Often code like this matures over long periods into stable solutions that could even deal with errors well. Makes them hard to replace.

I agree it doesn't belong in production but it looks pretty neat for small internal stuff even in 2019.

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Re:I got tired of PHP and Perl, so I tried bash by louwrentius on Saturday April 13, 2019 @08:58AM (#19652759)

It was a lot of work but it was my first real attempt at programming and the topic itself was motivating enough to bring it to completion.

Learning from books doesn't work, you need to have a project with a goal to apply it in.

The horrible honest truth is that the world actually doesn't run on bash, python, C or Java.

It runs on Excel macro's.

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Re:I got tired of PHP and Perl, so I tried bash by aloisamae on Saturday April 13, 2019 @12:32PM (#19653981)

This. Some of my Structural engineering professors have invested so much time in Excel they practically have an instance of their mind in it. Really fancy systems too that could do just about anything they needed. Always impressed me.

Your project is a great read!

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