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Re:Shell, Awk, and Make Should Be Combined (2016) by suid on Monday February 26, 2024 @08:15PM (#39518857)
Situation: Wow. Why three languages like this?

Solution: We should come up with a combo language that does it all.

New Situation: Wow, now we have four languages to deal with.

https://xkcd.com/927/

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Re:Shell, Awk, and Make Should Be Combined (2016) by chubot on Monday February 26, 2024 @09:45PM (#39519543)
A defining feature of Oils is that it's compatible, not incompatible. It runs your old code because it's an upgrade of POSIX shell and bash.

It also runs external executables like awk and make, just like any other shell.

See FAQ - http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/01/why-a-new-shell.html

This is a lazy and tired comment BTW.

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