From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 23:09:50 +0100 From: Eris Discordia To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <58ADE353D7158CD35973F13B@[192.168.1.2]> In-Reply-To: <3aaafc130904091234s55d7410bleaaec0d7277f3b04@mail.gmail.com> References: <7161bf48074fbed7ce78fdaf614b92b8@terzarima.net> <385e002a7435aac5d4428939fc564ac8@hamnavoe.com> <9ab217670904091228i703d5308q6ad7e5ff0987be97@mail.gmail.com> <3aaafc130904091234s55d7410bleaaec0d7277f3b04@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [9fans] a bit OT, programming style question Topicbox-Message-UUID: d8fd2cde-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > It only starts to balloon once you begin customizing bash. Have you customized your bash by aliases as long as tens or hundreds of lines? Now is it bash's fault you have defined an alias for something that ought to be a script/program in its own right? --On Thursday, April 09, 2009 3:34 PM -0400 "J.R. Mauro" wrote: >> No, it's very likely bigger. wc -l is lines of course, and I'm >> guessing each line is more than 1 character. However, >> >> $ set | wc -l >> 64 >> >> I don't quite get that locally. > > It only starts to balloon once you begin customizing bash. I'm not > sure how rc handles functions, but the nice thing about zsh is that it > compiles them to bytecode instead of this insanity that bash employs. >