Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> writes: > IMO the whole system of boolean logic in shell scripts is a massive > pile of hacks.
Agreed. It bears all the hallmarks of a system which has been extended to become a complete programming language only with extreme reluctance on its part. I continue to be impressed by how capable and powerful Unix shell is as a full programming language. Especially it is sorely missed on other OSes which lack a capable shell. But it could never be called “elegant”. > The sh and bash system of logic works, there's no doubt about it. […] > But none of this means that Python should, in any way, imitate it. Quite so. -- \ “Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of | `\ ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort.” | _o__) —Douglas Adams, _The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul_, 1988 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
