For questions relating to shells and kernels.
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What's shell script's advantage over interpreted programming languages?
(I'm not sure if it's a appropriate question here)
Shell scripts, like those written in bash, can do many things. They can call Unix programs, pipe their output, redirect I/O from/to files, control ...
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Functional programming: Writing a small interpreter
I'm working on a small Unix shell, and am contemplating the idea of writing a script interpreter. While reading about the subject I inevitably hear of functional programming, lambda calculus, and find ...
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Is it possible to use python as a shell replacement? [duplicate]
Recently I was looking at python's shutil and subprocess etc... And I started wondering: wouldn't it be ok to use python instead of e.g. bash?
What am I missing?
