[jamming] jam shell

[David Turner]

Hi,

technically speaking, the Rc shell doesn't have the Jam syntax, but
it treats each value as a list of strings as well, which makes for much
pleasant operations. Have a look, there's even a Unix port:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rc

Hope this helps,

- David


On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 02:19:16 +0200, "Mildred" <ml.mildred593 at online.fr> said:
> Hi,
> 
> I just had a thought.
> 
> I like the jam syntax and I thought it would be great to replace our
> unix shell by something similar to jam.
> 
> The main problem in the standard unix shell, I think, are the weird
> variable expansion rules that makes it difficult to write shell scripts.
> For example there is common bug, often shell scripts doesn't handle
> correctly filenames with spaces in them.
> 
> Does anyone here about a such shell ?
> 
> Mildred
> 
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