[Info-vax] Suggestion: Enhance DCL to support proper escape quoting.

Bill Gunshannon bill.gunshannon at gmail.com
Thu Jan 20 14:56:58 EST 2022


On 1/20/22 2:17 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-01-20, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 1/20/22 1:31 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> On 2022-01-19, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> If the shell is that important for a platforms success or failure,
>>>> Linux whould have been dead by now. A more user-unfriendly interface
>>>> is hard do find.
>>>>
>>>
>>> What about JCL ? :-)
>>>
>>> Bash is cryptic, but it is also powerful.
>>
>> What's cryptic about bash?
>>
> 
> When you start doing serious scripting with bash it can become cryptic
> but at the same time, it is also a powerful shell.
> 

I say it again, What is cryptic about bash?
Show me one.

bill



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