Get the latest tech news
Shell Has a Forth-Like Quality (2017)
Why Sponsor Oils? | blog | oilshell.org This post takes a short break from ASDL to expand on one of my Hacker News comments. I realize I haven't done much of what I mentioned in the second sentence of this blog: explain why the Unix shell is interesting.
Shell doesn't have an implicit stack, but the uniform representation of words in the argv array, and "splicing" with"$@", results in code that feels similar. In contrast to systemd, daemontools is a Unix init toolkit which relies on the idiom of small C programs composed with shell scripts. With oil, I aim to preserve the timeless architectural characteristics of shell, while abandoning ugly, inconsistent syntax, and smoothing over its sharp corners.
Or read this on Hacker News
