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From: Adam Spiers <adam@spiers.net>
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Sven Wischnowsky (wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de) wrote:
> Well... they may have read your mail already. (I got a mail from Chet
> Ramey where he answered my `Are we being monitored?' with `Of course. 
> Great programmers steal good ideas wherever possible.')

<grin> But great programmers never re-invent the wheel.  What are the
remaining valid reasons why people would prefer bash over zsh?  (I
don't count inertia as valid :-)

Hmm, maybe this should be moved to zsh-users.  Or alt.religion.sh ...