On 14/07/15 06:49, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > Guile is for situations, when script is mainly calls other programs, > but still needs moderately complex logic of text manipulation, > compraison and mapping. Recently I wrote script, that had to emulate > map(data structure). Well, I would prefer that is was part of Bash. Bash has associative arrays, which is the data structure other languages refer to as a map. > Second (possible) reason is that it allows Bash to be extended by every > user in Emacs way. After all, Guile was created for this to be possible. Bash has coproc, which allows 2-way communication with other processes including scripting language interpreters. (Whether that's a good idea or not is a different story, but it's possible.)
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