From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
To: Norman Wilson <norman@oclsc.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] ksh88 source code?
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2021 12:23:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD2gp_R+9PdVgvg0=tjWqxcfyrfBTpTqbSRDmmS8e5fZNQN3fw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5D8BA976A496FD8E3AEFB6C9153250F0.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org>
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On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 9:41 AM Norman Wilson <norman@oclsc.org> wrote:
> Shell wars are, in the end, no more interesting than editor wars.
>
+1. One person's "fully-featured software" is another person's "ten pounds
of crap in a five-pound bag".
> Bourne-family shells
All of which, considered as programming languages, are badly designed, in
the usual way of sofa beds and other allegedly dual-purpose pieces of
furniture. Scsh is a shell that's a high-quality programming language
(namely Scheme), and I have just discovered xonsh, which is like scsh for
Python. I have some ideas for a shell based on rc and Lua.
> To my mind, the Research 10/e sh had it about right,
>
Unfortunately, approximately nobody except you has access to its man page.
Can you post or email it?
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2021-12-22 14:40 Norman Wilson
2021-12-23 17:23 ` John Cowan [this message]
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2021-12-23 19:10 Norman Wilson
2020-12-22 22:43 Warren Toomey
2020-12-22 23:01 ` Clem Cole
2020-12-23 1:29 ` John P. Linderman
2020-12-23 22:57 ` Warren Toomey
2020-12-23 3:30 ` Rico Pajarola
2020-12-23 9:03 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-12-23 9:14 ` Rico Pajarola
2020-12-23 5:46 ` Scot Jenkins via TUHS
2020-12-23 7:19 ` Efton Collins
2021-12-21 13:55 ` Cyrille Lefevre via TUHS
2021-12-21 16:21 ` Larry McVoy
2021-12-21 16:27 ` Warner Losh
2021-12-21 17:15 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-12-21 17:31 ` Boyd Lynn Gerber
2021-12-21 19:09 ` Richard Salz
2021-12-22 6:23 ` jason-tuhs
2021-12-24 22:51 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-12-24 23:15 ` Richard Salz
2021-12-24 23:34 ` Michael Huff
2021-12-21 16:42 ` John Cowan
2021-12-21 16:47 ` Chet Ramey
2021-12-21 17:09 ` John Cowan
2021-12-22 11:11 ` Cyrille Lefevre via TUHS
2021-12-21 22:15 ` Thomas Paulsen
2021-12-22 7:44 ` arnold
2021-12-22 14:35 ` Cyrille Lefevre via TUHS
2021-12-22 14:36 ` Chet Ramey
2020-12-23 6:56 ` arnold
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