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		downer on Dec 22, 2007 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unix makes Computer Science easy Leave it to a Java programmer to extol the virtues of shell scripting. Java's really that bad, is it?

iamelgringo on Dec 22, 2007 [–]

:)

I haven't willingly used Java since those classes, however.

I'm just saying that for the basic stuff, you can actually learn quite a bit just by learning how to write shell scripts. And the learning curve is quite a bit shorter than in Java before you can get something remotely useful done.

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