Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Bash is Bloated!" video.

  1. Which Linux-compatible systems don’t have /bin/bash?
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  2.  @brlin  Would /usr/bin/env bash work there?
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  3. That old Unix half-truth “do one thing and do it well” would never work without all the large pieces on which to build the small ones: the kernel, the shell, glibc, gcc, the X server, systemd and so on.
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  4. In a command language, everything is assumed to be a literal string unless some special characters indicate otherwise. In a programming language (in which I include Python, Go etc), everything is an expression or statement unless you use special quotes to indicate literal strings. The latter is a pain in a command language. That’s why they’re not designed that way. And that’s why programming languages tend not to be good as command languages.
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