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

2022-08-28 Thread 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 interac

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

2022-08-28 Thread Martin D Kealey
Not that I fundamentally disagree with this (JSON) proposal, but I'd rather see the effort put into support for nested arrays (like ksh has), and generally having a more forward-looking view of Bash as an evolving language. I would see this proceeding somewhat like the transition from Perl4 to Per