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Re:Unix makes Computer Science easy by downer on Saturday December 22, 2007 @06:58AM (#91963)
Leave it to a Java programmer to extol the virtues of shell scripting.

Java's really that bad, is it?

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Re:Unix makes Computer Science easy by iamelgringo on Saturday December 22, 2007 @11:05AM (#91995)
:)

I haven't willingly used Java since those classes, however.

I'm just saying that for the basic stuff, you can actually learn quite a bit just by learning how to write shell scripts. And the learning curve is quite a bit shorter than in Java before you can get something remotely useful done.

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