[harisund]

I thought people shouldn't post anything about bash on HN? The minute you post something about bash immediately you will draw out a whole bunch of folks from the wood works talking about how bash sucks and should never be used for anything more than 3 or 4 lines and how they replaced bash with python or some thing else, immediately in turn drawing out a bunch of other folks talking about how bash should be replaced with power shell and how you can parse objects better ... .

[michaelcampbell]

Any programming topic spawns a bunch of comments about readability, or examples of code-golf. It's the nature of things.

[exdsq]

I had a really fun project earlier in the year prototyping a load testing tool for a blockchain in Bash while 4 other developers wrote a ‘better’ one in Haskell. Bash can get results quickly, although it’s not maintainable! Still, a decent kloc or two of bash with performance results within the sprint.

[heresie-dabord]

I had become annoyed by the Python bigots who will tell us about how easy to read their language is because its notation is clean, how all its functionality is "intuitive", how any combination of Python-based Rube-Goldberg Machine systems is the best.

But then came the PowerShell people...