Programmer Humor

32595 readers

1848 users here now

Post funny things about programming here! (Or just rant about your favourite programming language.)

Rules:

Posts must be relevant to programming, programmers, or computer science.
No NSFW content.
Jokes must be in good taste. No hate speech, bigotry, etc.

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

498

zsh, ksh, bash, and obviously sh (startrek.website)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

30 comments fedilink hide all child comments

cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/5735388

Counterspell this

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

There's a massive number of security holes in bash, shellshock being the most egregious. bash has some really terrible design flaws, especially parsing $var multiple times so you can't reliably break on spaces. Almost any other shell is safer and more productive.