> On Mar 12, 2020, at 3:00 PM, Vaidas BoQsc <vaidas.bo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Are there any plans to have alternative, a more modern C or D like > syntaxes for IF statements, While loop and the like in Bash? > > Would it be better to just make a new shell and command language > similar to Bash instead of adding these alternatives?
FWIW, some of zsh's complex commands have alternative forms that are visually more C-like, although they have some caveats and are (obviously) not even remotely portable. http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Shell-Grammar.html#Alternate-Forms-For-Complex-Commands vq
