26 Jun
2016
26 Jun
'16
8:32 p.m.
I detested the CSH syntax. In order to beat back the CSH proponents at BRL, I added JOB
control to the SV (and later SVR2) Bourne Shell. Then they beat on me for not having
command like editing in (a la TCSH), so I added that. This shell went out as /bin/sh in
the Doug Gwyn SV-on-BSD release so every once and a while over the years I trip across a
“Ron shell” usually people who were running Mach-derived things that ran my shell as
/bin/sh.
On Jun 26, 2016, at 1:14 PM, Larry McVoy
<lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 09:30:39AM -0700, Mary Ann Horton wrote:
I brought csh with me to Bell Labs in the summer
of 1979. The folks at Bell
Labs recoiled in horror: they had just gone through a painful conversion
from the Mashey shell to the Bourne shell
I used csh for a while before ksh became available. It was an improvement
over the Bourne shell, IMO, but once ksh came out I went back to Bourne
shell syntax. And now bash is pretty nice.
--lm