Re: [9fans] POSIXy V7 sh

[Brantley Coile <brantley@prepaynt.com>]

I've been using the new V7sh for several months now
and have really enjoyed it.  Many programmers I meet these days
have never been exposed to something as simple yet as powerful as
the original Bourne shell.  Usually the man page for bash alone
will cause one to abondon hope of knowing all the functions.
The Bourne shell, like C, is simple enough to know all of it.
It's not perfect, but as Geoff said, it is simple and predictable.

 Brantley

On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 20:09:41 -0800, Geoff Collyer <geoff@collyer.net> wrote:

> I should perhaps clarify that this is a V7 sh, from Steve Bourne, not
> a clone, with minor additions, that should run on most POSIX-like
> systems; it is not a POSIX-compliant sh.
>
> Its great virtues are simplicity and predictability, unlike most
> modern Lunix shells.
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