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On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 19:05:58 +0200, Vaidas BoQsc wrote:
> I keep on wondering why these shells can't come up with something better
> than improving previous shell syntax by little by only providing poor
> better alternatives.
> I somehow think there is a need to rethink shells from scratch to make them
> less mentally demanding and readable in the command prompt and scripts
> themselves.
> I really haven't seen anything that I would like to use so far. Neither
> zsh, tcsh or any other of the more popular ones as far as I remember from
> the last weeks "personal research".

You are always welcome to run perl as your shell.
Or, even php !