Re: Looking to the future (was Re: Light weight support for JSON)

[Oğuz İsmail Uysal]

On 8/29/22 5:48 AM, Martin D Kealey wrote:
> The Shell persists because it has one killer feature: it does double duty
> as a scripting language and as an interactive command language. But we're
> kidding ourselves if we think that no other language could fill that gap:
> Python has a respectable interactive mode, though its focus is on objects
> rather than processes and files; the interactive "debugger" console inside
> Firefox speaks Javascript; and even "perl -d" is almost usable.

So, neither of those could fill that gap. What could then?

> As for the future, I believe that if we don't move towards making the POSIX
> sh behaviour a truly optional part of an otherwise-more-sane language, we
> condemn Bash to continued obscurity and eventual extinction.

Nah. I think Bash already has too many features over POSIX; anything 
beyond indexed arrays, indirect expansions, and 
`${parameter/string/replacement}' is bloat.

Besides, who is going to evolve Bash into this "more-sane language"?