On Sunday 22 January 2012 01:21:42 pm Darrell Anderson wrote:
Unless you're already good at C++, just about any other language is going to be faster to program in. Programmer time is more valuable than machine time these days for the majority of applications--and for small- to medium-sized programs, no one is going to notice the difference in execution speed between one and three milliseconds anyway.
A funny thing about speed. Possibly experienced coders see a difference whereas every day users probably do not. Yet speed is relative. Often I have read how shell scripts are slow. From a strict theoretical and design perspective, I am sure that is true. In certain iterative tests, I'm sure shell scripts can be shown to be slower than other scripting languages. Yet in my every day usage, and I have written a few long shell scripts, I don't notice anything. I once read a person's comment that once a shell script grows to beyond a few dozen lines that a person should move to Python or Perl. Okay. Whatever.
+1
Arch linux package manger make extensive use of bash. Have a look at makepkg mkchroot and repo-add etc.
few dozen lines indeed ;)
I take it they have not seen my shell scripts :)
For system admin etc bash is great.