Similarly, Perl lets you say

my $ret = do {    if (...) {        ...    } else {        ...    }};

I am 100% confident that your claim is factually wrong.

I agree with your core point, but no software is intuitive.

b == 7 is a boolean value

Citation needed. I'm pretty sure it's an int.

Do you know the difference between a script and a program?

A script is what you give the actors; a program is what you give the audience.

Yeah, just don't make any mistakes and you'll be fine. Come on guys, how hard can it be?

Incidentally, this is an anti-pattern: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls#cmd1_.26.26_cmd2_.7C.7C_cmd3

@Tangentism @Ephera Did you mean:

echo "${var:-empty}${var:+no it aint}"

?

@affiliate Hey, you didn't even mention that char *args[] actually means char **args in a parameter list.

... Perl, Haskell, Lisp, ...

@masterspace

I haven’t used Perl though, what do you like better about it?

"Undeclared variable" is a compile-time error.

@masterspace "Undeclared variable" is a runtime error.

Perl.