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SUMMARY:Bashing the bash: Why the shell is awful & what you can do about it
DESCRIPTION:We’ll examine the profound limitations of the shell as a prog
 ramming language and look at better ways to do the same tasks in testable\
 , readable\, Python. We’ll talk about Safe Shell Scripts.\n\nSteven F. L
 ott will present. Steven is a second-time C&S presenter\, having been one 
 of our first pandemic-era online presenters\, on [COBOL from the Python pe
 rspective](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RijoARCM8Q)\, in May 2020.\n\n
 Steven F. Lott has been programming since the 70s\, when computers were la
 rge\, expensive\, and rare. As a contract software developer and architect
 \, he has worked on hundreds of projects\, from very small to very large. 
 He's been using Python to solve business problems for over 10 years. He ha
 s conducted numerous sponsored workshops at PyCon. He has a few O’Reilly
  Webcasts on Python topics\, and two Linked-In Learning Courses with a Pyt
 hon focus. He’s the author of a number of titles with Packt Publishing i
 nclude Python Essentials\, Mastering Object-Oriented Python\, The Modern P
 ython Cookbook\, Functional Python Programming 2nd edition\, Python for Se
 cret Agents\, and Python for Secret Agents Part II.\n\nhttps://www.devopsc
 hat.co/meetings/bashing-the-bash-why-the-shell-is-awful-what-you-can-do-ab
 out-it
URL:https://www.devopschat.co/meetings/bashing-the-bash-why-the-shell-is-aw
 ful-what-you-can-do-about-it
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