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by bishc 11y ago
I'm never sure when these plugs become too much, but... I created a language called bish that allows you to write your shell scripts in a sane and comfortable syntax. No more remembering which one of those conditionals to use! Bish com
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by bishc 11y ago
More generally, SSA means implicit use/def information. Use/def information and traversal are critical components of many static analyses and transformations: having the IR in SSA form greatly simplifies reasoning about and implem
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by bishc 11y ago
In my experience, many people will miss the significance of this, or will simply fail to grasp how this is implementing a programming language at all. After all, you're taking advantage of the host language for every single aspect of t
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by bishc 11y ago
Shameless plug for my language "bish" (compiles to bash) which aims to solve many of these annoyances with shell scripting: https://github.com/tdenniston/bish
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by bishc 12y ago
I see a lot of discussion on the awkwardness and idiosyncrasies of shells like bash.... So this is a great time for a shameless plug! Last week I released a language called 'bish' ( https://github.com/tdenniston&#x2
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by bishc 12y ago
This is quite apropos, as just last week I released a little language called 'bish' designed to overcome exactly this issue. It compiles to bash for portability, but has more modern and familiar syntax. See https://gith
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by bishc 12y ago
There is a section of the readme titled "Why" :-).
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by bishc 12y ago
Interesting notion! I personally am not a fan of whitespace sensitivity, but I understand why many people are. For me, after spending years writing code with curly braces and semicolons, they are effectively invisible (and thus do not seem
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by bishc 12y ago
That's what I was going for. Not a replacement for bash the shell, but a language that provides a bit more comfort for programmers while retaining the ability to run on any system your scripts did previously.
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by bishc 12y ago
(OP here). You're right: for simple tasks like listing files or changing directories, you probably don't need bish. I should come up with some better examples where bish wins in readability.
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Show HN: Bish – Shell scripting with a modern feel(github.com)
84 points by bishc 12y ago|42 comments