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Re:Posix Abstractions in Modern Operating Systems: The Old, ... by pjmlp on Sunday May 08, 2016 @02:26PM (#11655087)
The same can be told of the REPL environments of Smalltalk, Interlisp-D, Lisp Machines, Mesa/Cedar and Oberon.

All more powerful than UNIX shell languages while using structured data.

Coming from Spectrum, MS-DOS and Amiga, the UNIX shell seemed powerful until I discovered how the development workstation should look like, from the eyes of Xerox PARC.

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Re:Posix Abstractions in Modern Operating Systems: The Old, ... by JdeBP on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @03:08PM (#11669701)
At which point you switched to emacs and never looked back? (-:

Amiga REXX should have militated against that view of Unix shells slightly.

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