[TUHS] A few comments on porting the Bourne shell

[Jon Steinhart]

segaloco via TUHS writes:
> I think that's a good point that scripting problems may be
> a symptom of the nature of the tools being used in them.

I think that you're hinting at something different.

To the best of my recollection, scripting languages were originally
intended and used for the automation of repetitive personal tasks;
making it easier for users who found themselves typing the same
stuff over and over again.  Somewhere along the line people forgot
how to use a compiler and began writing large systems in a variety
of roughly equivalent but incompatible interpreted languages.  Can
one even boot linux without having several different incompatible
versions of Python installed today?  So I don't think that it's the
nature of the tools; I think that it's people choosing the wrong
tools for the problems that they're trying to solve.

Jon