Quite curious about if whether we had more robust shell languages, like Inferno's es, which uses functional expressions, though it's some 20+ years old by now, if kept alive by some enthusiasts... would much of the rationale behind the more basic configuration management and provisioning go away?
The chief rationale for embarking on the CM route is idempotence. Though it seems to me having a basic, lexer-only language simply for chain loading commands to exec() without much of the state and environment baggage behind full command shells could work as an alternative. execline works like this: http://skarnet.org/software/execline/
The chief rationale for embarking on the CM route is idempotence. Though it seems to me having a basic, lexer-only language simply for chain loading commands to exec() without much of the state and environment baggage behind full command shells could work as an alternative. execline works like this: http://skarnet.org/software/execline/