31 Dec
2022
31 Dec
'22
10:37 a.m.
Bourne to program, type with Joy.
On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 11:23 PM Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Fri, 30 Dec 2022, Larry McVoy wrote:
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Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual
When I was running my engineering team I was
strict about Bourne syntax
and features only. I got pushed on like crazy because "bash has this
$GOODNESS whhhhhhhy can't we use it". Because we were supporting our
product on pretty much every unix and if it wasn't HP-UX that had an
ancient /bin/sh, it was AIX or whoever.
I've never bothered to learn those Bash thingies, because "expr" does
everything that I need and is available on just about all boxes.
Over and over, I won the "straight bourne
shell only" battle. So I
agree, if you want /bin/sh to work, Bourne shell for the win.
Yep; whoever wrote CSH must've been high on something, as the syntax makes
no sense whatsoever.
For a login shell, bash is my shell of choice.
It's bloated but I'm
typing this on a 5 year old Lenova X1 Carbon with 16GB of memory and 4
cores and it's fine. It was fine a 133mhz Pentium.
I do admit to being a bit of a ZSH user... I've never bothered to learn
all its features, but the subset I use gets me through.
-- Dave