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Re:Pure Bash Bible by papito on Thursday September 19, 2019 @01:47PM (#21018652)
I don't think it's a matter of familiarity. Most of us here have used multiple languages, and I have no problem saying that the Bash syntax is atrocious.

"How do we close a statement.... errr. Let's spell it backwards".

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Re:Pure Bash Bible by serhart on Thursday September 19, 2019 @07:31PM (#21021781)
How is it not a matter of familiarity? Just because it's not intuitive to you doesn't mean it's bad. I find anything not in an S-expression to be atrocious. Doesn't mean I can't learn and understand "horrible" syntax where I have to separate things with semicolons...
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Re:Pure Bash Bible by papito on Friday September 20, 2019 @08:17AM (#21025794)
I am saying, we are allowed to have an opinion on it. You can be good at something and still acknowledge that is sucks.
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Re:Pure Bash Bible by throwaway_se099 on Thursday September 19, 2019 @02:04PM (#21018824)
> "How do we close a statement.... errr. Let's spell it backwards".

That's on the original Bourne shell and its author's evident love for Algol 68. Wikipedia has a fine summary.

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