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Re:Xonsh, a Python-ish, Bash-compatible shell language and c... by fastviper on Monday March 16, 2015 @09:27AM (#9211250)
.. you say a shell command line should be user friendly? What kind of user would use command line? We are all bofhs here.

Also some of us are being paid to write bash scripts. I'm for example forced into bash because of AIX server. Learing bash is fun and profitable...

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Re:Xonsh, a Python-ish, Bash-compatible shell language and c... by cstoner on Monday March 16, 2015 @01:41PM (#9212950)
> I'm for example forced into bash because of AIX server.

What? Consider yourself lucky. All of my AIX was ksh. If I wanted to be especially rebellious, I would use ksh93.

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