>> >> 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?
Yes >> 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. Why is Python suckless? I think it is a very well defined language, lots of documentation, and they take time to curate the language rather than letting it evolve without a guiding hand
