Re:It's time to get the Posix elephant off our necks
by msla on Thursday February 23, 2023 @03:06AM
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The problem with making a shell more like a "real" interpreter REPL is the purpose of a shell: Running arbitrary programs not known to the author of the shell, such that any unknown word in a shell script is probably the name of a program as opposed to a misspelled reserved word or variable name. Those programs having arbitrary command-line arguments and having to operate on files with arbitrary names is another complexity.
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Re:It's time to get the Posix elephant off our necks
by pasc1878 on Thursday February 23, 2023 @04:20AM
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It has been done. See xonsh a python shell which manages the distinction you mention.
Also see scsh and rash for scheme
Fish for non posix but sane syntax
Re:It's time to get the Posix elephant off our necks
by actionfromafar on Thursday February 23, 2023 @04:42AM
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It's interesting to see how so many things grow into each other. A shell is what you say, but there are many efforts to change that. Bash has its magic autocomplete which knows about options of many, many programs. Powershell has an object-model with knowledge of many of its commands.