[COFF] Powershell better than Bourne shell?

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Andrew Warkentin wrote in
 <CAD-qYGovNTQH-jF4A5bGkCiN55u1e7=8oEhwN=GatqTO+=AVeQ at mail.gmail.com>:
 |On 11/18/21, Adam Thornton <athornton at gmail.com> wrote:
 ...
 |The biggest issue I have with PowerShell besides its verbosity is that
 |commands have to be implemented as plugins rather than as external
 |programs.
 |
 |I'm thinking at some point I may write a Bourne-like shell with
 |object-oriented features for the OS that I'm working on. Instead of
 |requiring commands to be plugins to use the object-oriented features I
 |am thinking of having a generic facility for serialization and
 |deserialization with hooks to deal with the output format of different
 |commands (with JSON being an option as well).

I think by the end of the 80s / beginning of 90s David Korn's
shell did offer things like (object|module|x).subcall, aka method
calls in C++ sense or in ruby sense also module functions iirc.
I think there were even modules for graphical user interfaces that
could be driven by Korn shell, but all that i only saw from
glancing over history, i did not live it.

Ruby was slow compared to Perl 19 years ago.  I wrote "Monty"
things for TCL, Python, Ruby, Perl, and object based "Monty" for
the same except TCL.  AMD Athlon 1600+, 133FSB, 256MB (27MB
used;), linux console, 10000 loops:

  monty.php:# ~0.250 secs.
  monty.pl:# ~0.100 secs.
  monty.py:# ~0.590 secs.
  monty.rb:# ~0.178 secs.
  monty.tcl:# ~0.360 secs.
  monty_obj.php:# ~0.310 secs.
  monty_obj.pl:# ~0.175 secs.
  monty_obj.py:# ~0.600 secs.
  monty_obj.rb:# ~0.218 secs.

Back in around 2011 someone counted script language startup CPU
cycles, and iirc Python was several times that of Perl.

--steffen
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