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Re:Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years [pdf] by unrealhoang on Friday June 04, 2021 @10:59AM (#27394250)
How is any of the advantages you listed not achievable by learning a better programming language, say, Python?
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Re:Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years [pdf] by NegativeLatency on Friday June 04, 2021 @11:40AM (#27394727)
Some of them are but for quick stuff it’s hard to match the speed and flexibility of the shell
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