Re: Invalid Operating System

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From: Peter da Silva
Subject: Re: Invalid Operating System
Date: 14:46 on 11 Dec 2006
On Dec 11, 2006, at 1:47 AM, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> Peter da Silva wrote:
>> I mean, if you're going to break compatibility completely, you might 
>> as well fix the rest of the screwups at the same time.
>> Starting with "do..done" versus "if..fi" and working up.

> do .. od?  Yes!  Kick the people who _still_ want an octal dump whilst 
> they're down!

YHBT, HAND. :)

No, really, I was thinking more like riffing off...

grep foo blah > /dev/null && {
   fooble blah
}

The Plan 9 shell, rc, is an interesting approach, reminiscent of 
Smalltalk in a way.

There's stuff above here

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