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:ID: acab6667-11f5-4c85-93ee-627c1db6d574
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:ROAM_REFS: [cite:@greenbergUnixShellProgramming2021]
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#+title: Unix shell programming: the next 50 years
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#+date: 2021-08-03 22:42:04 +08:00
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#+date_modified: 2022-06-11 18:23:17 +08:00
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#+published: 2021-06
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#+author: Greenberg, M., Kallas, K., & Vasilakis, N.
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#+source: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3458336.3465294
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#+language: en
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- Unix shell is a long-standing tool with its cruft and history built over the past decades;
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- the goodies
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- ease of composition gluing tools together easily
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- mostly found on Unix systems
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- capabilities for data streaming
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- interactivity and automation
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- the blockers
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- too dynamic with its environment that
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- ease of composition of tools made of different programming languages with different properties made it difficult for research
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- there's no single shell environment;
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the current ecosystem is made of multiple implementation of the POSIX shell which is made of ~300pp describing the language, arbitrary behaviors, and extraneous tools to go along with it
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- the solvable blockers
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- no easy way to handle errors;
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it can mean the life or death of a system with a misspelling
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- not-so-good framework for asynchronous jobs;
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performance is acceptable for single-threaded systems but not for multi-threaded ones;
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that said, it does exist once you've made yourself familiar with it
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- redudant computation;
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several tools like [[roam:GNU Make]] does address it but not fully
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- not exactly fitting with the modern deployment systems
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- some projects to look forward to
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- Jash
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- Smoosh
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- Posh and Pash
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