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On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 5:52 PM, Warren Young <wyml at etr-usa.com> wrote: >> >> OK, but should one developer make an extra effort or the bazillion >> people affected by it? > > That developer is either being paid by a company with their own motivations or is scratching his own itch. You have no claim on his time. Agreed - but I'm not going to say I like his

...u'd be better off switching to perl at the first hint of needing arrays/sockets or any library modules that already exist in CPAN instead of extending a shell beyond the basic shell-ish stuff. But nobody asked me about that. > If you think I?m wrong about that, you probably didn?t ever use sharchives. Of course I used sharchives - and I value the fact that (unlike most other languages) things written in Bourne-compatible shell syntax at any time in the past will still run, and fairly portably - except perhaps for the plethora of external commands that were normally needed. Perl doesn't...

...h ksh or Bash extensions, for that matter? The original Bourne shell achieved Turing-completeness in 1977. There is literally nothing we can ask a computer to do that we cannot cause to happen via a shell script. (Except run fast.) If you think I?m wrong about that, you probably didn?t ever use sharchives. [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Runtime >> Could be there are more downsides to that plan than upsides. > > You didn't come up with portable non-java counterexamples I already told you that I didn?t want to start a Java argument. This isn?t the place for it. Still...