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by jascii 2471 days ago
Nice recursive definition..

The practice of programming in shell languages was well established when Bash was designed and Bash was definitely designed with that use in mind. So by your definition Bash is a "real" programming language.

Lisp on the other hand, was much more designed as a system and formal notation to reason about certain classes of logic problems.. So, Lisp is not a "real" language?
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dec0dedab0de 2470 days ago
Bash is primarily a shell, it even has the word shell in its full name.
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jascii 2470 days ago
And a shell can't be a real language? https://scsh.net/
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dec0dedab0de 2470 days ago
a shell can't be a real language?

No, it can not.

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jigglesniggle 2470 days ago
By "programming language" he probably means something that has robust flow control mechanisms and metaprogramming facilities.

You can definitely tell there's a different "feel" to bash and Tcl, Python, Perl, Go, etc, yes? Shell languages basically evolved out of batch processing languages that were meant to only run programs in sequence and it shows.

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