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> Almost everything in a unix system could be better served with some kind of standard system of typing. Lightly typed data (like strings you must parse) is mo
by humanrebar 9y ago
> Almost everything in a unix system could be better served with some kind of standard system of typing.
Lightly typed data (like strings you must parse) is more future proof at the expense of leaving more potential for bugs (escaping whitespace).
Strongly typing requires the shell designers to provide more opinions. More opinions provide more opportunities to be wrong about what needs we will have in the future decades.