[H4ZB7]

he probably meant on the terminal but he's just LARPing like every other UN*X enthusiast. they like to create false dilemmas like "legacy" and "embedded"* to justify their bloated poorly implemented string flinging machine that has another 100KLOC to parse the input line (readline)

imagine someone pitching shell programming today. the response would be: LOL so you mean each language will have a common subset of syntax that supposdely works the same across all of them? how can anyone ever program that way?

* ironically, a big part of why embedded products are so flaky is just because of their shell scripts

[1vuio0pswjnm7]

The only thing that makes UNIX appealing to me is the fact that I find all the alternatives are so much more annoying. If there is some UNIX alternative that is less bloated and slow, please share.

NB. Almquist shell does not necessarily use readline. Neither NetBSD's sh nor Linux's dash use it. (Not to imply editline isn't bloated, too, but it's not nearly as bad.)

Further, I did not mean "the terminal". I had to look up "LARP". FWIW, I do not play video games. I do not use readline. I do not use a "terminal emulator". I use textmode. These choices are not because I think highly of ash, editline, textmode, non-graphical computing or minimalism in general. They are because I find the alternatives (large scripting languages, readline, video games, terminal emulators) are really annoying.

Why not share some of the programs H4ZB7 has written, so we can see how to do things the right way.