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Re:Functional programming in sh by daenz on Wednesday May 23, 2012 @11:05PM (#4016567)
The nightmare of writing any kind of serious program in the shell was the inspiration for PBS https://github.com/amoffat/pbs
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Re:Functional programming in sh by entropy_ on Thursday May 24, 2012 @06:06AM (#4017643)
Wow... Just wow... I always thought there should be something more intuitive than the subprocess module.

This actually makes it practical to use python where I would usually use shell scripts.

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Re:Functional programming in sh by lubutu on Thursday May 24, 2012 @07:11AM (#4017797)
That API is actually quite well designed, thanks. I don't really use Python anymore, but if I did I'd really consider using it. Although "bake" should really be "curry".
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Re:Functional programming in sh by vlisivka on Thursday May 24, 2012 @05:35AM (#4017572)
You shouldn't write anything serious in shell or python, use serious language for serious jobs, please.

(But if you do, use bash-modules, please).

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Re:Functional programming in sh by surement on Friday May 25, 2012 @06:06PM (#4025555)
Care to explain why?
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