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Re:Pure Sh Bible by hulitu on Monday May 01, 2023 @04:35AM (#35770347)
> Remember that time bumblebee accidentally deleted everyone's /usr? Or that time steam deleted everyone's homedir? Both because of the easiest to avoid bash footguns - spaces and empty variables.

https://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/misc/horror.txt

Your exanples were bugs which were not caught during development because "testing is hard and expensive" and "if it compiles, ship it".

Re:Pure Sh Bible by xcdzvyn on Monday May 01, 2023 @04:53AM (#35770469)
And yet Rust gains traction over C. "Best practice" can't fix a dangerous tool.