Re: Shell history (Re: bash conversion trouble.)

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>]

On 26/02/17 01:10 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Feb 26, 10:03am, Ray Andrews wrote:
> }
> } Is there a brief history of shells that one might read?
>
> This:
>
> http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Shell_giants/introduction.shtml
>
> has the timeline mostly correct; but the author is so far off on the
> relative merits of the Bourne and C shell scripting languages, for
> example, as to make most of his editorializing ignorable.  He seems
> to have some kind of axe to grind with Steve Bourne and wastes a lot
> of words bashing him (no pun intended), but there is a lot of useful
> source material quoted or linked.

I almost stopped reading when he started to foam at the mouth, it ruins 
the document.  Anyway thanks, that's as much of a brief history as I 
need.  One thing tho:

"no clean separation between lexical analysis and syntax analysis"

I sure can agree with that, it seems to be at the heart of many 
difficulties.