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From: Vaidas BoQsc <vaidas.boqsc@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Are there any plans for more readable, modern syntaxes for If statements?
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 22:45:24 +0200
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No, I haven't. I looked at the various documentations of tcsh and couldn't
see any real improvements in syntax from a standard bash.
I can't even see a reason to use tcsh instead of bash, as an average of
bash. Syntaxes are the same or almost the same and horrible to read.

2020-03-12, kt, 22:21 John McKown <john.archie.mckown@gmail.com> ra=C5=A1=
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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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> Maranatha! <><
> John McKown
>