On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 04:30:40PM +0200, Axel Liljencrantz wrote: > You should try one of the many fishes where bones aren't an issue > then.
i am, there is just no category to seperate those. > Salmon is delicious when served raw as sushi or with a mustard sauce > and potatoes, or it can be served cooked, fried or barbequed with a > variety of sauces. > Small herrings [ ... ] tast wonderful when served with lingonberries. yum. > Also, the commandline shell named fish contains no bones. i am so glad about that :-) you know what: you should rename functions to recipies, then we can talk about fish recipies... :-))) > Very few people spend many hours per week writing shellscripts, > therefore, a shellscript language should be very simple and > consistent, otherwise you keep forgetting little details all the time. exactly, that's why fish syntax appeals to me. > But then maybe I simply haven't seen enough of Ruby. i'd just leave it at that. i have seen things in ruby that make me cringe. > Haven't used Pike, though I am under the impression that it's mostly > PHP without the train wreck. although things are getting better with object orientation in php5 this is still very wrong. pike is more like java without the trainwreck. it is somewhere between python and java with some combination of both. note though that it is older than both python or java. > >universal variables for shells are a very useful and innovative idea btw. > I don't know about innovative. i mean innovative in the context of shells. i do not believe that anyone considered such a feature for shells before. sure it is possible to write an app that can be updated from outside, and it is done from time to time, but that's something very generic. > 18.6: How can a process change an environment variable in its caller? i believe that only works in the caller, because the child and parent have some closer relationship. i don't think that would even work with any process. but then i have no clue about c... 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
