31 Dec
2022
31 Dec
'22
10:18 a.m.
On Dec 30, 2022, at 7:59 PM, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
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 switched to zsh in 1993-94 when I found out it had sh compatible
syntax but also had some useful features from csh (bang commands,
a{b,c} expansion, aliases etc.). Back then my machine had 16MB of
memory (IIRC a 50Mhz i486). zsh is the Cadillac of shells. But I
also use rc, the VWbug of shells on plan9!