From: rog@vitanuova.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] v8 shell
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 00:43:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a7892b11feb14cd18cac457811e32e2f@vitanuova.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031113234400.7e61f87b.ggm@apnic.net>
> like many people, I haven't been able to face the terminal moraine of rc, to get
> to the mountain tops behind it. If only there was a budget for clue, and a
> market for selling it in this area.
erm, rc is dead easy... much easier, in fact than the bourne shell
(let alone all those unix abortions).
the only (and crucial) thing that's really different is the fact that
variables are (single level) lists. this means you're no longer at
the mercy of space-based tokenisation every time you use a $var
expansion. more-or-less everything else boils down to sugary
syntactic differences.
rc makes for a much more reliable scripting language.
i can't really see why anyone would want to go back to the bourne
shell when it's so fundamentally error-prone.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-14 0:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.GSO.4.21.0311131606190.27715-100000@zenon.ceid.upatras.gr>
2003-11-13 16:06 ` Taj Khattra
2003-11-13 17:41 ` rob pike, esq.
2003-11-13 23:44 ` George Michaelson
2003-11-14 0:43 ` rog [this message]
2003-11-14 6:59 ` boyd, rounin
2003-11-17 10:26 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-11-17 12:13 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-11-18 9:48 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-11-14 12:04 ` John Murdie
2003-11-14 18:01 ` rog
2003-11-14 19:04 ` boyd, rounin
2003-11-14 19:18 ` rog
2003-11-14 19:31 ` boyd, rounin
2003-11-14 22:25 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2003-11-16 11:45 ` Richard Miller
2003-11-16 12:01 ` Geoff Collyer
2003-11-16 12:21 ` Richard Miller
2003-11-17 20:31 ` rog
2003-11-16 14:23 ` Russ Cox
2003-11-16 14:35 ` Richard Miller
2003-11-15 15:03 ` a
[not found] ` <oprykztjlztsux9g@smtp.borf.com>
2003-11-14 0:41 ` boyd, rounin
2003-11-14 17:51 ` rog
2003-11-14 18:51 ` boyd, rounin
2003-11-17 10:26 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-11-14 7:05 ` boyd, rounin
2003-11-14 8:13 boyd, rounin
2003-11-14 18:12 Richard C Bilson
2003-11-14 19:09 ` rog
2003-11-14 19:12 ` boyd, rounin
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