Incompatibility [LWN.net]

Incompatibility

Posted May 20, 2005 15:05 UTC (Fri) by markc (guest, #4419)
In reply to: Incompatibility by liljencrantz
Parent article: Fish - The friendly interactive shell

Perhaps if you wrote a "fishify" inbuilt function or program to covert
bash'isms to fish'isms then folks could adopt fish on top of established
bash scripts.

I could find myself using fish instead of bash but every time I went to
write something that might be widely distributed I'd probably always stick
to bash, unless there was a reliable way to ensure that a fish script
would still work under most circumstance and play well with establish bash
scripts (like rc startup scripts for instance).

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Incompatibility

Posted May 21, 2005 10:26 UTC (Sat) by liljencrantz (subscriber, #28458) [Link]

The languages are close enough that this should be possible. Back in college, I wrote a Pascal to C converter for a syntax course, this should actually be easier. Of course, that converter ignored tricky bits like records and pointers, and it was never widely tested...