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Re:Red Hat Expecting X.org to “Go into Hard Maintenance Mode... by DonHopkins on Friday June 28, 2019 @03:46PM (#20308157)
When did I every say or imply that I was writing my own shell? There are already ample real programming languages to use that can fork off and manage sub-processes just fine, thank you, instead of writing ridiculously inefficient complex hard to maintain un-modular shell scripts.

Why would I waste my time trying to fix something that's fundamentally flawed, and that nobody would use because it wasn't "standard"?

We already have Python, JavaScript, Perl, etc. Even PHP is overwhelmingly better and more modular than bash! Why try to put lipstick on a pig like bash?

My point (which I already stated) is that the "Unix Philosophy" in intellectually bankrupt, not that the shell should be extended with string manipulation and floating point to make it unnecessary to fork "sed", "awk" and "bc".

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