On 2013-11-25 14:16:48 +0200, Dimitris Zervas wrote:
> Well, making our own shell, would be a really good idea!
In my opinion others already got close enough for us not to worry (rc,
mksh, undoubtedly others). We had some discussion about whether we would
have a shell included with sbase, but I think the consensus (or at
most, what David said) was that we weren't going to use one in the end.
My only concern is that there probably has to be some balance between
POSuX and having a unusable environment, which is a pretty delicate
balance to strike (see: crazy ass bash nonsense where `readonly' and
`declare -r' don't have the same scoping).
Although maybe we don't have to care about Microsoft POSIX subsystem any less as long as
we're not /bin/sh, who knows. I know a few people who are happily using
fish (which sucks), but at most it shows that people don't necessarily
care about Microsoft POSIX subsystem semantics in their shell.
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