Shell scripts are obviously imperfect, but I don’t necessarily agree with this absolutism view. In the right circumstances, you can quickly prototype an idea or process information in a shell script with such low friction. Truly the hacker mentality, which I don’t think a “real” language can always provide in the spur of the moment.
I'm starting to come around to that view, especially since shell is an unusually productive REPL. What are the "right circumstances" for a shell script in your experience?
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