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| From | Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> |
| Newsgroups | gnu.bash.bug |
| Subject | Re: Are there any plans for more readable, modern syntaxes for If statements? |
| Date | Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:43:39 -0400 |
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On 3/13/20 9:27 AM, Eli Schwartz wrote: > (I am still mindblown that "I want a modern syntax for XXXX" can > possibly lead to "imitate C, which is 50 years old and thus astoundingly > even less modern than the Bourne shell by an entire decade".) I think the emphasis is on more familiar and more readily recognizable syntax, which I suppose leads to improved readability. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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