Excerpts from Pierre Gaston's message of 2018-03-14 09:22:45 +0200: > > On 26/01/15 13:43, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 08:11:41PM -0800, garegi...@gmail.com wrote: > > >> As a programming language which paradigms does bash support. > > Declarative, procedural, imperative? Read code like 'topgit' and you'll understand that there is a reason why alternate programming languages do exist for complex programs.
I'm not a shell export, but I don't know how to return a list in bash. You can get quit far with shell scripts depending on what you do. But seriously - why not just use Python/Perl/Ruby/... ? some paradigms * global functions/ vars / some global state (eg how glob patterns behave) * builtin background processing by using & leep 10 & sleep 10 & wait * propagate exit codes by false && true && true (only first will be run) * signal handlers and clreanup hooks * hashes, lists, but syntax is wired (IMHO) => can you return lists? ... -> so for anything complex use a real language, please. Marc Weber
