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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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