Star Fish: the Friendly Interactive Shell
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 19th Dec 2005 17:17 UTC
General Development "This is an in-depth look at fish, the friendly interactive shell. Fish is a GPLed commandline shell, written for Linux and other Posix-like systems. I felt there was a need for this article after all the attention that has been given to Monad, Microsoft's upcoming shell. Unlike Monad, fish is not a new way to look at the shell concept. Fish is based on the same ideas as other Unix shells like bash and zsh, but contains many user interface improvements and makes shellscript into a proper programming language."
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Stop it. There's nothing new to this. Monad IS in fact innovative and has by FAR the better concepts than e. g. those ugly Java-OO-shells.

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Java-OO-shell? What exactly are you talking about, if then Monad is Java like, not Fish. I've just read through some of the material about fish and I like it. The syntax is clean (the first time I looked at long bash scripts I got scared by the syntax) and the designee ideas are very Unix like.
I still have to actually try it but I think I have myself a new favorite shell.

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"Stop it. There's nothing new to this. Monad IS in fact innovative and has by FAR the better concepts than e. g. those ugly Java-OO-shells."

Please submit an article to OSNews with your analysis / comparison of various *nix shells and Monad. As far as I can see; Fish has nothing to do with Java; however, I await your write up on OSNews.

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