Tool of the week � ftsh

“I came across this the other day and figured I add it to my
archives. The Fault-Tolerant Shell (ftsh) is a small language for
system integration that makes failures a first class concept. Ftsh
aims to combine the ease of scripting with very precise error
semantics. It is especially useful in building distributed systems,
where failures are common, making timeouts, retry, and alternation
necessary techniques.

“Some examples:”

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