Programmer Humor

There's always the old piece of wisdom from the Unix jungle: "If you write a complex shellscript, sooner or later you'll wish you wrote it in a real programming language."

I wrote a huge PowerShell script over the past few years. I was like "Ooh, guess this is a resume item if anyone asks me if I know PowerShell." ...around the beginning of the year I rewrote the bloody thing in Python and I have zero regrets. It's no longer a Big Mush of Stuff That Does a Thing. It's got object orientation now. Design patterns. Things in independent units. Shit like that.

Any no-SQL syntax for interacting with databases.

Me with powershell. I'll write a pretty complex script, not write powershell for 3 months, come back and have to completely relearn it.

This. But Pandas and Numpy.

Pandas and Numpy and Bash.

Incredibly true for me these days. But don't fret, shellcheck and tldp.org is all you need. And maybe that one stackoverflow answer about how to get the running script's directory

I mastered and forgot almost entirely RegEx several times now

VLOOKUP. Every time. Also Catan Cities and Knights.

This is why I finally switched to nushell.

Today I tried to write bash (I think)

I grabbed a bunch of commands, slapped a bunch of "&&" to string them together and saved them to a .sh file.

It didn't work as expected and I did not, at all, look at any documentation during the process. (This is obviously on me, I'll try harder next time)

Regex

Edit: to everyone who responded, I use regex infrequently enough that the knowledge never really crystalizes. By the time I need it for this one thing again, I haven't touched it in like a year.

Bash substitution is regex-level wizardry.

I feel same with regex....

I don't normally say this, but the AI tools I've used to help me write bash were pretty much spot on.

Clearly you don't write enough bash scripts.