[aklug] Re: bash sucks

From: Christopher Howard <christopher.howard@frigidcode.com>
Date: Fri Feb 03 2012 - 19:54:25 AKST

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On 02/03/2012 07:42 PM, Arthur Corliss wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Feb 2012, Christopher Howard wrote:
>
>> Too late. Your depressing and uninspiring response took me
>> down... like a rock. I'll just go back to my regular nightmares
>> about [[ $- != *i* ]] and if/fi statements. I've resigned myself
>> as a eternal prisoner of that ever vicious "popularity ==
>> portability" trap.
>
> Well, if you want to keep the dream alive you'll have to go into
> full advocacy mold. Start talking up the superiority of tcsh,
> perhaps create your own distribution that offers only tcsh and
> replaces all the existing bourne/bash scripts with tcsh variants,
> etc. Give people ample evidence to sway them to your side.
> Perhaps over time there'll be a new portable standard.
>
> It'll be an uphill climb, but that's exactly what's been done with
> new programming languages like python, ruby, etc. How strongly do
> you believe in your cause?
>
> --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

Not enough... Yet. Need to write some more shell scripts, and even
then, I still haven't tried Korn. Ksh claimes to be the best of bash
and tcsh put together.

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