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Brian_K_White
on July 31, 2023
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The shell and its crappy handling of whitespace
Not if java tried to call itself javashell, but didn't act like a shell.
Clamchop
on Aug 1, 2023
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Uh, why are sh and derivatives the final word on how a shell must behave? Or at least it appears that you are saying PowerShell doesn't "act like a shell".
Is this a No True Scotsman?
Brian_K_White
on Aug 1, 2023
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Why bother have words that mean things then? Call anything you want anything you want. Sounds useful.
porridgeraisin
on Aug 2, 2023
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Since when did the definition of a shell include "deals with everything as a unstructured stream of bytes"?
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