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Re: UNIX(*)/ Linux history & system design

From	crankypuss <crankypuss@nomail.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject	Re: UNIX(*)/ Linux history & system design
Date	2014-05-08 03:50 -0600
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 05/07/2014 02:25 PM, Jerry Peters wrote:
> crankypuss <crankypuss@nomail.invalid> wrote:
>> On 05/07/2014 09:23 AM, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
>>>
>>> Would you care to elaborate why precisely you consider it to be 'so
>>> crude that it is astonishing it didn't vanish'?
>>
>> Do I really need to elaborate on that?  Only positional parameters for
>> functions, no builtin functions to speak of, which drives the user to
>> using sed or some similar external program for even trivial
>> functionality.  It's a very basic script processor, not a language.  On
>> top of that, the bash rules for escaping the characters it has coopted
>> for special purposes make it a syntactic nightmare even worse than C.
>> The fact that someone kludged control structures onto a simple
>> substitution engine does not make it a programming language.
>
> But sed, date, awk, and all of the other text processing utilities are
> the "library of functions" for shell programming. Why should there be
> duplicate functions in bash?

Our concepts of what "shell programming" means is not even close to the 
same.  You are apparently content with what a history of add-ons has 
provided.  By all means, carry on.

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