Comment Re: its just auto predict (Score 1) 248
Peopleâ(TM)s speech is largely just prediction too. People donâ(TM)t generally think out entire monologues first, they start talking and go with it.
Seriously. To do any serious task requires state, and the problem with a minimal shell is that it can't remember much. The major scripting languages where all written to solve this problem, as well as integrate with embedded code in C. I'm a fan of Tcl myself, but virtually any scripting engine would be an improvement to a network enabled Pseudo-BASH with a whitespace delimited language.
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