Lars Wirzenius on Nostr: The Unix shell if a powerful tool, but fragile and can easily cause something to ...

The Unix shell if a powerful tool, but fragile and can easily cause something to break. It's possible, with great care and long experience, to write complicated things using it, but most who try, fail. It's like juggling running chainsaws in a randomly varying gravity field.

I think I've spent a cumulative hundreds of hours reading the documentation for various Unix shells, and their various differences and quirks. I regret this. I could've learned learned to write with a fountain pen.