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On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 3:07 PM Vaidas BoQsc <vaidas.boqsc@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?
>

I think this would need to go to the bash-dev list. Have you tried tcsh? I
understand it tries to be C like.



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