From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] v8 shell From: rog@vitanuova.com In-Reply-To: <20031113234400.7e61f87b.ggm@apnic.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 00:43:19 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8951f0be-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > 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.