Re:Perl7 is a fork of values
by boring_twenties on Saturday August 01, 2020 @10:56PM
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The thing about bash is that it's much less powerful than perl, while at the same time being more prone to surprising, undesirable behavior and write-only code.
The worst of both worlds.
I agree that bash has a lot of flaws, but on the other hand it makes a much better shell than perl. I really value using the same language for ordinary interaction with my computer and automation of very simple tasks.
When I write one liners I tend to build them up in bash, and so when I want them to be reusable I do the same as your (3) but targeting bash. Then when they get at all complicated I rewrite in python.