title: Is bash a programming language?
body: <p><strong>TL;DR;</strong> What are shell scripts? Is it a programming language / is there a programming language we use in shell scripts? </p>
  
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  <p><strong>disclaimer</strong>: a bit offtopic<br>
  So bash stands for <em>Bourne-again shell</em>. A (Unix) Shell is a command line user interface or maybe one could call it an interpreter (?)</p>
  
  <p>So I'm filling out an application for a new job and you get asked for experience of different programming languages and then there is this box at the bottom <em>other experiences</em> - I started typing <em>python 2.7, powershell, bas...</em> Wait! bash isn't a programming language - it's a console that can execute shell scripts... so... eh.... oh my god I have no idea!</p>