[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“Software developers face a similar problem some 2000
years later. There are many ways to say the same thing in so many
programming languages. Even at the command line, there are many
analogs to choose from, including a variety of shells and various
combinations of commands.“In general, the variety is good, but it can also be daunting.
Which solution do you choose? Will the technology keep pace with
requirements? Will the investment of time and effort pay off? Or
will those neatly written glyphs (or are those Perl sigils?) become
obsolete? Worse, will everything have to be translated (rewritten)
for other environments?“If you don’t want to commit to the idiosyncrasies of the Fish
shell, the Bash shell, the Z shell, the Windows operating system’s
cmd.exe, or some other shell scripting language, try the Squirrel
Shell. The Squirrel Shell provides an advanced, object-oriented
scripting language that works equally well in UNIX, Linux, Mac OS
X, and Windows systems. You can write a script once and run it
anywhere.“Even better, you don’t have to put a half-ton rock in your ear
to use it.”