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zelos on June 6, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, inc...

Teaching bash scripting as an introduction to programming? Surely there are laws against that kind of cruelty?

em500 on June 6, 2019 [–]

It's certainly not any worse than BASIC on 1980s home micro's. (IMO it's not any worse than Python either.)

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