From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <509071940703131032k16889eb6xbc2c93409a995514@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:32:16 -0400 From: "Anthony Sorace" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] How can I shift a variable other than ? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070311202334.GI12719@kris.home> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 21c9db40-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 3/13/07, rog@vitanuova.com wrote: > somebody (anothy?) made a comment ages ago about how it was "suprisingly slow". that was me. don't misunderstand: i quite like the shell, and that wasn't intended to imply that it's not suitable for a great number of things (including, of course, interactive use and one-offs). i suppose i was just disappointed that we couldn't yet really use shell scripts as extensively as they are in plan 9. > unfortunately it's probably not possible to improve things without breaking > binary compatibility. binary compatibility with what?