From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 10:13:32 -0400 From: Kurt H Maier To: lucio@proxima.alt.za, Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20120828141332.GA10058@intma.in> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [9fans] rc vs sh Topicbox-Message-UUID: b0a30f80-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 04:10:39PM +0200, Lucio De Re wrote: > > Anyway, I do not understand how uniform crappiness can be advantageous... > > The issue raised on Go-Nuts is that Bash shouldn't be used for > installing Go, /bin/sh should be used instead. The response is that > Bash is the most uniformly implemented of the /bin/sh's out there and > that none of the other shells (generally referred to as /bin/sh) can > be relied upon not to have incompatible foibles that would trip up a > complicated script headed #!/bin/sh. Typical Go shit there. If the scripts are so complicated that it's a pain in the ass to find a way to run them, fix the stupid scripts.