3 Jul
2021
3 Jul
'21
5:09 a.m.
On Fri, 2 Jul 2021, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
List readers will have their own views of the paper.
My own is that,
despite its dark corners, the Bourne shell has served us
extraordinarily well, and I have been writing in it daily for decades
without being particularly bothered by the many issues raised by the
paper's authors. Having dealt with so-called command shells on
numerous other operating systems, at least the Unix shells rarely get
in my way.
I still use the descendent Korn shell most of the time (often in the form
of bash) on modern systems, and I don't just mean those that are
Unix-like. I've found that a lot of times I can build a quick tool using
bash or ksh93, or use a bash one-liner, and do something that's impossible
with command.com on DOS or cmd.exe on NT and OS/2.
-uso.