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by mrlemke 1507 days ago
Don't take the following as a critic of your disdain for shell. Your comment reminded me of this:

https://www.gnu.org/software/nosql/4gl.txt

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I don't remember when this was written, but it's an interesting read. It requires a bit different approach, but it is augmented well by 3GL programs. Commands that don't exist can be written in shell, Python, C, Rust, etc. I usually use a shell first approach, start the command as a shell script and rewrite it in something else if necessary. It is quite flexible and extensible if you work within it's data types (probably the wrong term, but f.g. files and text streams).

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