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Re:Crush: A command line shell that is also a powerful moder... by chubot on Friday August 07, 2020 @04:42PM (#24086242)
Yup, it's already been done with 'shopt -s simple_word_eval' in Oil, see right above:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24086213

And yes I drafted a blog post called "Unix Shell Should Evolve Like Perl 5" which says exactly what you are saying:

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/07/blog-roadmap.html#the-u...

And Oil has already done it. It needs to be faster, but that's an inevitability based on progress so far.

Why Use Oil? http://www.oilshell.org/why.html

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