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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 20:34:47 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 13 Oct 2024 08:19:16 -0000 (UTC), Muttley wrote:

> ITYF the people who dislike Perl are the ones who actually like the unix
> way of having simple daisychained tools instead of some lump of a
> language that does everything messily.

Not sure how those small tools can work without the support of much bigger 
lumps like the shell, the compiler/interpreter for those tools and the 
kernel itself.