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The programming/scripting language that incorporates the most frustrating
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combination of deficiencies and awesome power is probably the POSIX shell with
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accompanying utilities, which all exist in several variant implementations. Due
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to said power, the shell refuses to die as a scripting language. But when
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scripters are bitten by arcane grammar pitfalls, defective tutorials on the
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web, or shell functionality deficits, then 'use a real programming language
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instead' is generally the mantra.
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Enter modernish, a new vision on shell scripting. Modernish aims to provide a
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standard library that allows for writing robust, portable, readable, and
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powerful programs for POSIX-based shells and utilities. It can solve the shell
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language problems mentioned above, and many more. With modernish, you'd almost
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think the shell has become a modern programming language!
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The library builds on the POSIX 2018 Edition standard, so it should run on any
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sufficiently POSIX-compliant shell and operating system. But it also takes
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advantage of certain shell-specific enhancements if it detects them.
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WWW: https://github.com/modernish/modernish
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