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Ah, another limiting abstraction layer to learn and to fight.

Bash is plenty good.

But all of the package recipes are just Bash scripts, which I think is just terrible, btw. Using a real programming language would have been a much better choice.

We struggled with this! I think we found the right balance, but time will tell.

> Using a real programming language would have been a much better choice.

The problem is that everyone disagrees on what a tolerable real programming language is. Some refuse to use Python; others Ruby; others Scheme; others Lisp.

At least every can tolerate shell more or less.

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