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chubot on Oct 24, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Four features that justify a new Unix shell

the approach to have a few tools that work well in their specific niches to be superior to having one tool for all jobs.

Exactly, that is the point of shell.

Shell scripts are meant to invoke Python or Ruby programs.

sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24875932

earlier comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24083764

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