On: No script is too simple

[jniedrauer]

Nothing is quite as succinct as shell. The python equivalent to this would probably be at least 10 lines of code.

[tyingq → jniedrauer]

Everyone tends to rag on Perl, but it's excellent in this space.

Edit: The equivalent of above would be:

  #!/usr/bin/perl
  my $shell=(getpwuid($>))[8];
  print "$shell\n";

Though it does have simple syntax for pipes as well.

[yjftsjthsd-h → jniedrauer]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24558719 does it in 5, which is, I think, proof that you're both right. (Of course, perhaps shell is cheating, since I chained 3 commands into that one-liner, and 2 of those are really their own languages with further subcommands.)