what's the best shell

the best poll is:
	bash
	zsh
	fish
	cmd.exe
	powershell
	COMMAND.COM
	some ancient greybeard poo poo ive never heard of
	the JS console in ur browser
	gently caress off moo cow
	checkbox poll

Gazpacho: Jun 18, 2004; by Fluffdaddy; Slippery Tilde

thansk for leaving out csh and tcsh OP, that was the right thing to do

# ¿ Jul 26, 2017 16:04

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Gazpacho: Jun 18, 2004; by Fluffdaddy; Slippery Tilde

one of my co's is always looking for the next homeopathic software tool to save him from having to understand anything

yesterday he asked how to do something, so I started to type a command on his computer and pressed tab for file completion and that caused the shell window to hang

he said "this is zshell" and I asked why he was using it with a broken autocomplete and he just giggled. he'd do this with every tool given the chance

# ¿ Jul 26, 2017 16:10

Gazpacho: Jun 18, 2004; by Fluffdaddy; Slippery Tilde

Mr SuperAwesome posted:

i looked at the wikipedia page for shells and saw them and i was like "hosed if i konw what the gently caress they are" so they didn't make it

They're the default for bsds and they are also bad

# ¿ Jul 26, 2017 17:12

Gazpacho: Jun 18, 2004; by Fluffdaddy; Slippery Tilde

Bill joy is known for two programs that took over the programming world to varying degrees yet both made it a worse place

# ¿ Jul 26, 2017 17:16

Gazpacho: Jun 18, 2004; by Fluffdaddy; Slippery Tilde

Btw the answer is emacs

# ¿ Jul 26, 2017 17:17

Gazpacho: Jun 18, 2004; by Fluffdaddy; Slippery Tilde

Doc Block posted:

no csh? voted 1

Correct

# ¿ Jul 26, 2017 20:57

Gazpacho: Jun 18, 2004; by Fluffdaddy; Slippery Tilde

JewKiller 3000 posted:

then again, you program in c++ and think it's ok, so i'd say this is a wash

i do not fear the machine

# ¿ Aug 2, 2017 04:44

Gazpacho: Jun 18, 2004; by Fluffdaddy; Slippery Tilde

There Will Be Penalty posted:

http://blog.fpmurphy.com/2010/05/ksh93-using-types-to-create-object-orientated-scripts.html#sthash.snlyNUcl.dpbs

# ¿ Aug 5, 2017 04:29

Gazpacho: Jun 18, 2004; by Fluffdaddy; Slippery Tilde

although making each object a directory with inheritance via symlinks would be a more unixy approach imo

Gazpacho fucked around with this message at 04:36 on Aug 5, 2017

# ¿ Aug 5, 2017 04:33

Gazpacho: Jun 18, 2004; by Fluffdaddy; Slippery Tilde

Gazpacho posted:

although making each object a directory with inheritance via symlinks would be a more unixy approach imo

to illustrate, here's a script that creates a board game object and invokes a method on it to initialize its board. (may contain bugs!)

Bash code:

#!/bin/bash

UNIVERSE="$HOME/universe"
mkdir -p "$UNIVERSE/instances"

createGame()
{
	local this=$(mktemp -dp "$UNIVERSE/instances" XXXXXX)
	mkdir "$this"/.state
	cat <<-'EOF' >"$this/initBoard"
		#!/bin/bash
		this="$(dirname "$0")"
		cat >"$this/.state/board"
	EOF
	chmod u+x "$this"/*
	echo "$this"
}


game=$(createGame)
sed -e 's/\$$//' <<'EOF' | $game/initBoard
  X$
 X $
X  $
EOF

Gazpacho fucked around with this message at 09:00 on Aug 5, 2017

# ¿ Aug 5, 2017 06:39

Gazpacho: Jun 18, 2004; by Fluffdaddy; Slippery Tilde

Perl: not even once

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Gazpacho: Jun 18, 2004; by Fluffdaddy; Slippery Tilde

pram posted:

why dont more people use tcl

because Stallman wrote an essay against it and also because it is bad

# ¿ Aug 6, 2017 03:32