[aklug] Re: programming with bash built-ins

From: Joshua J. Kugler <joshua@eeinternet.com>
Date: Thu Sep 02 2010 - 15:04:19 AKDT

On Thursday 02 September 2010, Christopher Howard elucidated thus:
> Just curious: would it be possible to create a useful or entertaining
> program using only bash built-in functions? (And functions created
> using them, of course.)

Possible? Sure. Productive. Eh...not really. Painful? Very. But then,
there's this:

http://www.google.com/search?q=bash+web+server

Or this:

http://www.pugo.org/main/project_pshttpd/
Yes, an httpd server written in postscript.

Pretty much any Turing-complete language can be used for whatever you
want. Whether or not you want to expend the time and energy to do what
you want is another question entirely.

j

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