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From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Shell Central
Date: 30 Aug 2002 13:41:07 GMT
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In the last exciting episode, peter@abbnm.com (Peter da Silva) wrote::
> In article <42f85d82.0208290655.549f1e67@posting.google.com>,
> Ed Davis <ed_davis2@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> How about BUSH!
>> 
>> http://www.vaxxine.com/pegasoft/bush.html
>> 
>> It is sort of like BASH, but uses a subset of Ada as the
>> scripting language.
>
> Doesn't seem terribly well adapted to the UNIX paradigm of pipes and
> filters. It's more like a scripting language that defaults to "exec"
> for unknown commands. Useful, but not really a shell.

BUSH may be very simply characterized:

  It's about writing "scripts" in Ada.

Parallel it with REXX, which essentially provides a simplified version
of PL/1.

BUSH takes things a _bit_ further than REXX; it's apparently
sufficiently similar to the Parent Language that it is expected to be
relatively easy to modify scripts to make them compilable into plain
Ada code.
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