On Sun, Aug 28, 2022, at 2:56 PM, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2022-08-28T14:11:25-0400, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: >> I do not think bash needs to sprout functionality to support every >> data-exchange format of the month. > > This sentiment is illustrative of the logarithmic memory scale of > grognards. The Bourne shell was first released as part of Version 7 > Unix in January 1979.[1] 22 years and three months later, in April > 2001, Douglas Crockford and Chip Morningstar sent the first JSON > message.[2] > >> A loadable module might be okay, I guess. > > How about next July, when JSON is as exactly old as the Bourne shell was > when JSON was deployed?
I do not find "well *actually* JSON is old too!!!" to be particularly persuasive, either. I should have foreseen that the offhand "of the month" jab would get undue attention compared to my actual objection, which is against giving one data format uniquely first-class support. That's on me. >> Why are people so allergic to just using specific utilities for >> specific tasks, as appropriate? (This question is rhetorical. >> Please do not respond with an impassioned plea about why JSON is >> so special that it deserves first-class shell support. It's not.) > > I won't litigate this point, but your concept of novelty is distorted > beyond any standard reasonable in the computer industry. If we are only > as young as we feel, you must feel geriatric in the extreme. Sick burn, pal. Excuse me while I take out my dentures or whatever. -- vq