<html><body><div>On Jul 27, 2012, at 08:54 AM, Alex Rønne Petersen <xtzgzorex@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="msg-quote"><div class="_stretch"> Since always? I mean, nobody actually uses cmd.exe on Windows, do they?<br> </div></div></blockquote><span></span><br>First, shell scripts are not portable. You have to be very careful which language constructs you choose to use. It's very easy you suddenly use a language construct that is an extension only available in a particular shell.<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><div class="msg-quote"><div class="_stretch"> It's literally the only platform without a shell installed by default,<br> and even then, getting a shell via MinGW or Cygwin is trivial.</div></div></blockquote><span></span><br>I don't agree. I wouldn't want to ask my users of an application/tool to have to install MinGW or Cygwin. Preferably the shouldn't have to install anything. That basically means native code.<br><br>--<br>/Jacob Carlborg<br></div></div></body></html>