19 Nov
2021
19 Nov
'21
1:20 a.m.
Chet Ramey <chet.ramey(a)case.edu> wrote:
On 11/18/21 2:03 PM, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
This is a good point. Those of us with access to ksh made use of
its features when scripting. (Speaking for myself.)
Arnold
Also remember that there were plenty of people
who were happy working
with the shell and the Unix toolkit as-is.
I would argue that this functionality gap is what inspired David Korn to
put as much into ksh as he did. The first `public' version of ksh was
released in 1983.