On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 8:36 PM, Greg Ewing <[email protected]> wrote: >> I know people who can read bash scripts >> fast, but would you claim that bash syntax can be >> any good compared to Python syntax? > > > For the things that bash was designed to be good for, > yes, it can. Python wins for anything beyond very > simple programming, but bash wasn't designed for that. > (The fact that some people use it that way says more > about their dogged persistence in the face of > adversity than it does about bash.)
And any time I look at a large and complex bash script and say "this needs to be a Python script" or "this would be better done in Pike" or whatever, I end up missing the convenient syntax of piping one thing into another. Shell scripting languages are the undisputed kings of process management. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
