On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 15:17:11 -0400 Calvin Morrison <mutanttur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > Honestly assuming that the POSIX shell is anything other than > horseshit, full of weird rules, plenty of non-standard-shells > surrounding it, poor variable handling, barely working functions, a > lack of decent scoping, and more crap like that, why are we even > looking at implmeneting a posix shell? So you would rather prefer to define an own subset of rules to implement? > A suckless shell in my mind would be one closer to Python with baked > in support for execution and piping I would've never dreamed of hearing "suckless" and "Python" in the same sentence, but I understand what you mean. Refer to [0] for some pitfalls shared by our fellow Martin Kopta on his blog[1]. [0]: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls [1]: http://martin.kopta.eu/blog/#2012-06-11-10-22-00 -- FRIGN <d...@frign.de>
