Subj : Re: Opinion on Pascal
To : Hemo
From : Deavmi
Date : Sat Apr 01 2017 11:37 am
On 2017-04-01 05:52 AM, Hemo wrote:
> -=> 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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0 makes sense. It usually is always like that. It is a neutral number.
