From: Jos Backus <jos@catnook.com>
To: Chet Ramey <chet@nike.ins.cwru.edu>
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: posix compliance
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 21:29:39 -0701 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020621043001.GA13822@lizzy.catnook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <020620211924.AA92433.SM@nike.ins.cwru.edu>
Hi Chet,
[T'was nice to meet you, btw.]
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 05:19:24PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> > Indeed, his argument that things like these were causing them lots of
> > problems with zsh point to poorly written scripts in the first place. But
> > of course he's not going to admit that, least of all in public with the
> > bash maintainer standing next to him.
>
> Oh, I wouldn't have minded. There's a lot of crap out there, and shell
> scripts are no exception.
Absolutely. I just wish that he had been interested in discussing the real
problems they were undoubtedly having with zsh so they can be fixed; that's
how progress is made.
> ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet)
"Learning is suffering"? My Latin is rusty.
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Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ Santa Clara, CA
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-21 4:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-20 21:19 Chet Ramey
2002-06-21 4:30 ` Jos Backus [this message]
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2002-06-18 22:58 Clint Adams
2002-06-20 18:05 ` Jos Backus
2002-06-20 18:13 ` Bart Schaefer
2002-06-20 19:17 ` Jos Backus
2002-06-20 21:31 ` Dan Nelson
2002-06-21 5:19 ` Borsenkow Andrej
2002-06-21 11:35 ` Oliver Kiddle
2002-06-23 17:53 ` Bart Schaefer
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