> "If you have to write more than 10 lines, then use a real language"
I swear, there should be a HN rule against those. It pollutes every single Shell discussions, bringing nothing to them and making it hard for others do discuss the real topic.
I swear, there should be a HN rule against those. It pollutes every single Shell discussions, bringing nothing to them and making it hard for others do discuss the real topic.
It doesn't. You now have 4 numbers.
Five There's five numbers in this industry 0, 1, 3, 4, 5 and infinity
Wait, I'll come in again
The 7 being for design. If there are more than 7 boxes on the whiteboard, try again.
Unicode character can have more than 7 font boxes associated with one character box and still be a valid determinate character form.
log base 2 of 4 is only 16bits
This rule of ten lines or less is clearly meant as an illustrative guideline. Obviously if you have a shell script that has 11 lines, but does what it has to do reliably, nobody will be bothered.
The idea that the rule is trying to convey is "don't write long, complex programs in shell". Arguing about exact numbers or wording here is detracting from the topic at hand.
Unless, the language is APL, in which case, 10 lines is an operating system.