Re: scsh.net broken link(s)
Andreas Bernauer <[email protected]> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 13:51:07 +0100
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Anthony Carrico wrote: > Nunez Steve wrote: >> Whilst I'm here, is there any active development of this shell going on? > > I don't know. Sunterlib has been dormant for a long time. I don't use > scsh much these days because of a lack of 64bit support. Besides the lack of 64bit support, I summarized my reasons, why I don't use scsh any more in this rant: http://www.lysium.de/blog/archives/215-Why-I-dont-use-scsh-as-a-scripting-language-anymore.html As a short summary, writing and debugging scripts written with scsh is awful: lots of quirky extra syntax to remember to write a script and error messages with no line numbers and contexts. There are more viable alternatives than scsh out there to write scripts, which also allow functional-style programming and access to the OS. It's sad, but that's the way it is (at least for me). -- Andreas.