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Re:A language that compiles to Bash and Windows Batch by colejohnson66 on Friday May 20, 2016 @06:31PM (#11742055)
I'd say the usage of -lt and the like is because angle brackets are used for piping data.
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Re:A language that compiles to Bash and Windows Batch by wvenable on Friday May 20, 2016 @06:54PM (#11742185)
The shell is a mess of symbols making any sane programming language impossible. Instead of perhaps rethinking the "mess of symbols" issue they ruined the language instead.
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