On Dec 11, 2006, at 1:47 AM, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
Peter da Silva wrote:
I mean, if you're going to break compatibility completely, you might
as well fix the rest of the screwups at the same time.
Starting with "do..done" versus "if..fi" and working up.
do .. od? Yes! Kick the people who _still_ want an octal dump whilst
they're down!
YHBT, HAND. :)
No, really, I was thinking more like riffing off...
grep foo blah > /dev/null && {
fooble blah
}
The Plan 9 shell, rc, is an interesting approach, reminiscent of
Smalltalk in a way.