add sh/bash to pain list

add sh/bash to pain list

Posted Feb 22, 2007 5:59 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: add sh/bash to pain list by k8to
Parent article: The Road to KDE 4: CMake, a New Build System for KDE (KDE.News)

To see the ultimate expression of this check out Microsoft's Monad.

It's a .NET scripting language trying to pass itself off as a user interface.

The healthier example is ipython. And that is nice in the way that it doesn't pretend to be anything it's not, which is a improved python shell (which has always existed) to make a easier to use and freindlier python development environment.

Bash isn't that bad. They've been steadily improving it as time goes on.

I don't know how stupid or obvious this is, but I just learned about it not long ago, but the backticks are now deprecieted.

The improved method is to use (). Like such:

echo $(echo $(echo $(echo 'hello world')))

So that would be impossible with backticks, or at least so hard I don't know how to do it. It's certainly a lot more convient.

Maybe it's time to re-evaulate it? I donno.

If you want a thing that is specificly designed to be easy to use is:
http://fishshell.org/

It's pretty neat. One of things about it is that it supports some of the newer Freedesktop.org standards like the *.desktop files.

For example if you go:
open foo.bar

Then it will look up the mime type and then launch your default application for that file. It's kinda new and a lot of the <application>.desktop files are broken but it's nice non-the-less.

Kind a like the shell for normal people.

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