Subj : Re: Opinion on Pascal
To : Jagossel
From : Hemo
Date : Fri Mar 31 2017 10:52 pm
-=> Jagossel wrote to Hemo <=-
Ja> Re: Re: Opinion on Pascal
Ja> By: Hemo to jagossel on Thu Mar 30 2017 22:32:01
> I would never consider Bash a programming language any more than I would DOS
Ja> No argument from me on that point. I get it's not a programming
Ja> language in the fact that there is no code to compile. I never said
Ja> that it is a programming language.
> But.. as a scripting language, it is similar to a programming language in th
Ja> at
> is has specific syntax for specific commands. If you don't get the syntax
> correct, you're screwed no matter what language you're working in.
Ja> I totally get that. My point is that other languages (both scrpting and
Ja> programmimg languages) have SOME room for minor differenes in
Ja> whitespacing.
Ja> Again, I have VERY LITTLE experience with BASH and I get tripped up
Ja> from time to time when I do use it and I have to look up some things in
Ja> the manual.
Ja> Examples of where I stumbled a bit:
Ja> - Spaces inside the square brackets
Ja> - The special switches for if a directory or file exists or doesn't
Ja> exist
Ja> - Accepting argumemts
Ja> - Defining functions first before calling it
no arguments from me on any of that. I find the more languages one tries to
learn, the more confusing it can be as things do vary between them. Sometimes
quite a bit. Sometimes little things, like the result when comparing strings.
C returns 0 when they match, which still trips me up, becuase most other
languages I may use return 1 or true when strings match.
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