• KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 months ago

    Pseudo code is literally fake code.

    hence why i specified why i consider it to be as such. I just think pseudo code shouldn’t exist. Plain and simple. Bash scripting is close to a language in the same way that pseudo code is also technically code.

    What do you mean by this?

    i just mean the simple fact that you could technically probably run bash on windows, but really wouldn’t want to. I don’t consider bash to be a programming language, though it is technically a scripting language, because it’s primary existence is in the shell environment of a system. I.E. constricted, but that’s just my view of it.

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      7 months ago

      Bash being on the same level as actually fake code is a pretty hot take to me. What are your opinions on Python, or Ruby, or any other interpreted language? You could very well use them as your login shell, just like Bash if you wanted. In your eyes, if Bash *isn’t * a programming language at all, how do you describe a programming language? Languages that express code are just the same as languages that write stories, and whether you do it in German or Vietnamese makes no difference on what story you can write.

      When you describe a language as constricted what do you mean? Bash can do anything Python or Rust can do, each of them is just specialized to being better at specific aspects for human convenience in writing code. There is no inherit limitation on what can be done by the language you use to express it.