Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages

On 10/10/2024 21:31, Rainer Weikusat wrote:

Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> writes:

Thinks start to become complicated once references to complex objects
are involved. Eg,
 @{$$a[0]}
 is the array referred to by the first item of the array $a refers to and
 ${$$a[0]}[0]
 which seriously starts to look like a trench fortification with
barbed-wire obstacles is a way to refer to the first element of this
array.

I thought you were defending the language. Now you seem to be agreeing with how bad this syntax is.