[RFC PATCH 02/28] cli: Add LIL shell

Sean Anderson seanga2 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 8 06:56:50 CEST 2021


On 7/6/21 3:44 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Tom,
> 
> In message <20210705191058.GB9516 at bill-the-cat> you wrote:
>> This is I think the hard question.  A draw of the current shell is that
>> it it looks and acts like bash/sh/etc, for at least basic operations.
>> That's something that's comfortable to a large audience.  That has
>> disadvantages when people want to start doing something complex.  Sean
>> has shown that several times and he's not the only one.  LIL being
>> tcl'ish is not.
> 
> Tcl is a horror of a language for anything that is above trivial
> level.

Can you please elaborate on this? You've made this claim several times,
but haven't explained your reasoning for it.

--Sean


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