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Re: Looking to the future (was Re: Light weight support for JSON)
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Oğuz İsmail Uysal |
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Re: Looking to the future (was Re: Light weight support for JSON) |
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Mon, 29 Aug 2022 07:47:58 +0300 |
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On 8/29/22 5:48 AM, Martin D Kealey wrote:
The Shell persists because it has one killer feature: it does double duty
as a scripting language and as an interactive command language. But we're
kidding ourselves if we think that no other language could fill that gap:
Python has a respectable interactive mode, though its focus is on objects
rather than processes and files; the interactive "debugger" console inside
Firefox speaks Javascript; and even "perl -d" is almost usable.
So, neither of those could fill that gap. What could then?
As for the future, I believe that if we don't move towards making the POSIX
sh behaviour a truly optional part of an otherwise-more-sane language, we
condemn Bash to continued obscurity and eventual extinction.
Nah. I think Bash already has too many features over POSIX; anything
beyond indexed arrays, indirect expansions, and
`${parameter/string/replacement}' is bloat.
Besides, who is going to evolve Bash into this "more-sane language"?
- Re: Light weight support for JSON, (continued)
Re: Light weight support for JSON, John Passaro, 2022/08/28
Re: Light weight support for JSON, Lawrence Velázquez, 2022/08/28
Looking to the future (was Re: Light weight support for JSON), Martin D Kealey, 2022/08/28
- Re: Looking to the future (was Re: Light weight support for JSON),
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