Re:NGS: Next Generation Unix Shell
by naasking on Thursday April 21, 2016 @05:18PM
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> I'm sure we can all agree that the current state of shells needs some work, but I don't think inventing a new one is the right solution.
Disagree. A shell is a domain-specific programming language, and all the existing such languages are terrible. We'd be better off with a properly designed language, like a shell language based on OCaml: Caml-shcaml [1].
Disagree. A shell is a domain-specific programming language, and all the existing such languages are terrible. We'd be better off with a properly designed language, like a shell language based on OCaml: Caml-shcaml [1].
[1] http://users.eecs.northwestern.edu/~jesse/pubs/caml-shcaml/