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From: "Daniel Colascione" <dancol@dancol.org>
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Subject: Re: Are there any plans for more readable, modern syntaxes for If statements?
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> 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".
>

fish shell and powershell are two reasonable attempts. I think current
shell syntax is fine though.