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Re:Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs by jt2190 on Sunday June 28, 2026 @08:57AM (#48706899)
> Shell is not a programming language, it's an interface to the OS, and thinking about it like a programming language is just asking for frustration.

I guess this just isn’t obvious to me. Where do you see the boundary between “interface to the os” and “programming language”?

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Re:Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs by t-3 on Sunday June 28, 2026 @09:10AM (#48706976)
Shell exists to give users a way to run programs. It was the user interface for UNIX, C was the programming interface. Yes, it's technically a programming language by any reasonable definition, but it's not meant to be used in the same way at all so that's not helpful.
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