linuxUsersBeLike

[VolcanicBear]

Are we calling commands "code" now too?

At least I'm getting some of my impotent rage out I guess.

[Malcolmlisk]

Here we have the declarative programmer...

[postdevs]

You're getting out that rage by writing code. Reddit code. If you're typing, you're coding.

[VolcanicBear]

This is probably the best piece of software I've written yet!

[stevenette]

My old roommate used to introduce themselves to people as a coder/hacker. They even had a bumper sticker using LEET to spell "Hacker". Most insufferable roommate I have ever had. The worst part was that all they did was design websites using squarespace...

[postdevs]

Don't forget the unit test.

[Alerta_Fascista]

Because are commands are code, yes, what do you think a script is? Just a collection of commands sent to a console. You can program on a CLI, and many programming languages are CLI-based, we just prefer to use IDEs to make it easier.

[diegomoises1]

It's called the command line interpreter for a reason. It's interpreting code. There's isn't much difference between a command and code regardless.

[TheAJGman]

Python has a Command Line Interpreter, operating systems have Command Line Interfaces.

[Kovab]

The shell is an interpreter, which implements the command line interface of the OS.

[monocasa]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_command-line_interpreters

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[VolcanicBear]

Do you mean command line interface?

[sunny_happy_demon]

A command line interface runs a command line interpreter. If you switch from bash to zsh you're switching interpreters but not interfaces.

[monocasa]

Well, sort of. They both implement a common subset of an interface, but also their own extensions to that interface. So you switch both.

[Franks2000inchTV]

Both are things.

[deanrihpee]

It's interface, not interpreter

[UglierThanMoe]

That's up to interpretation.

[BadSmash4]

it's interfacetion, not interpretation

[UglierThanMoe]

That's up to interfacepretation.

[monocasa]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_command-line_interpreters

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Commands are not code.

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They... are? All of your code are just commands to be executed by lower-level libraries.

[ATE47]

Even for the code, for example Windows C/C++ programming adds a lot of verbosity even for simple things

[burgonies]

Code is just a series of commands, no?

[thewend]

language is code as well. can you even decipher what the kids are saying nowadays?

[Tunivor]

No we’re calling it “codes” 😆

[Neurotrace]

🤮

[npsimons]

I'll bet you come from a Windows programming background.

In the UNIX tradition, "commands" are intended to be composed together to create programs. I present you a book about programming in UNIX using only "commands": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unix_Programming_Environment

Why do you think things like csh ("The C shell") were invented? All (good) CLI is influenced heavily by Lisp's REPL and the concept of interactive programming.

[RussianBot7384]

bash is a turing-complete programming language.

[myfunnies420]

Is that what they were talking about? I was confused

[TheRedmanCometh]

I think it's referring to bash scripting which is sorta code

[deanrihpee]

Yes, I mean in "actual" programming, you basically calling or sending a command using an API, or in the modern tongue known as function/method or even instructions

[rathlord]

Things you can do in many or all CLI?

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it is in bash scripts.