> I keep on wondering why these shells can't come up with something better > than improving previous shell syntax by little by only providing poor > better alternatives. > I somehow think there is a need to rethink shells from scratch to make > them > less mentally demanding and readable in the command prompt and scripts > themselves. > I really haven't seen anything that I would like to use so far. Neither > zsh, tcsh or any other of the more popular ones as far as I remember from > the last weeks "personal research". >
fish shell and powershell are two reasonable attempts. I think current shell syntax is fine though.