Francois Labreque <fla### [at] videotronca> wrote:
: First: shell scripting IS a programming language.

  Well, strictly speaking, yes.
  The most important difference with common programming languages is that
the shell script is very closely related to the Unix system and its tools.
Using unix tools (usually separate little programs, sometimes shell builtin
commands) is very natural and straightforward using a shell script.
  In most programming languages this isn't as easy. Usually programming
languages are quite independent from the system and so, calling system tools
is not as easy.

: Second: Unix doesn't have built-in compilers either.  What you should
: have said is that most Unix packages, usually come with a bundled C
: compiler.  But not all of them do.  SCO, for example, doesn't unless you
: buy the "advanced" package.

  Well, it's more an exception than a rule that in a randomly chosen Unix
there's no cc command... :)

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):_;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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