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by Osiris 1551 days ago
They did it also because with the old syntax it was unintuitive how to put commands inside quotes. It borrowed the new syntax from bash but it wasn't ONLY to be more bash compatible. It solved a real fish shell problem also.
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cpach 1550 days ago
Nitpick: The $(…) syntax was not invented by GNU, it was invented by Kenneth Almquist at the University of Washington.

https://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/ash/#original

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