[therein]

This rule of thumb is clearly too simplified, even as far as the definition goes.

Sometimes you just want to execute 50 lines with little logic.

Sometimes you just have some simple logic that needs to be repeated.

Sometimes that logic is complicated, sometimes it is not.

[forrestthewoods]

Sometimes someone writes 50 lines of simple logic. And then sometimes someone else needs to figure out why it’s not working. That person gets very cranky and wastes a lot of time when those “simple” 50 lines aren’t debuggable.

If shell scripting didn’t exist I would be totally fine with that. There are far more scripts that I wish were written in a real language than the other way around.