On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 01:49:54PM +0200, Axel Liljencrantz wrote: > Thanks for the support, glad you like fish.
actually the sad part is that i don't like fish that much because of the fishbones. i just hate it to have inedible parts in my food. :-) > Fish contains ~6000 lines of shellscript, most of it in the completion > system. So it's certainly possible to write non-trivial programs in > fish, i don't discount that, especially when you compare it to sh scripts, fish syntax is much cleaner and therefore better to write larger readable scripts. > but I have to agree that e.g. Python or Ruby are much nicer > languages for almost all types of scripting. python, yes, but ruby not really, it fails miserably on a minimalistic syntax. (i'd think lisp probably has one the most minimalistic syntaxes and fish maybe nearby, whereas perl and ruby are the other end with the most complex syntaxes around. python is somewhere in the middle) though the programming language i work with is pike. (note that it's another fish (which makes the above food comment evenmore ironic :-)) > >universal buffer > It should be possible to do this using a simple universal variable. it was the universal variables that made me think of this. universal variables for shells are a very useful and innovative idea btw. i was often irritated when i had to change shell configuration on each of my shells (and due to screen i usually run 10 of them in paralell) eg, when i had to change the BROWSER, thanks to this i could be sure that i didn't miss any shell, and save a lot of keystrokes too. greetings, martin. -- cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and unix offering: programming, training and administration - anywhere in the world -- pike programmer travelling and working in europe open-steam.org unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at administrator (caudium|gotpike).org is.schon.org Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
