There's always the old piece of wisdom from the Unix jungle: "If you write a complex shellscript, sooner or later you'll wish you wrote it in a real programming language."

I wrote a huge PowerShell script over the past few years. I was like "Ooh, guess this is a resume item if anyone asks me if I know PowerShell." ...around the beginning of the year I rewrote the bloody thing in Python and I have zero regrets. It's no longer a Big Mush of Stuff That Does a Thing. It's got object orientation now. Design patterns. Things in independent units. Shit like that.

[–] Kissaki 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I consider python a scripting language too.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They're all programming languages, they all have their places.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

All scripting languages are programming languages but not all programming languages are scripting languages

[–] Reptorian 3 points 1 day ago

I use it for scripting too. I don't need Python as much as before nowaday.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I initially read "UNIX jungle" as "UNIX jingle" and thought I had been really missing out!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

You have, look up the SuSE songs.