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created  2020/03/31
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batch (.bat or .cmd) files are lists of ms dos commands with added branching via if, for, and goto statements. it is turing complete so i will refer to it as a programming language

windows
shell

scripting

TODO: write batch scripting cheatsheet

my history with it

batch was my second programming language to scratch and it thought me a lot about more conventional (non-gui) programming in my earlier years, sometimes i still write projects in it for the hell of it cause it's actually quite fun to write in

scratch

see also

stackoverflow: is batch turing complete?
wikipedia: batch file