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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