> Anyway, I do not understand how uniform crappiness can be advantageous...
The issue raised on Go-Nuts is that Bash shouldn't be used for installing Go, /bin/sh should be used instead. The response is that Bash is the most uniformly implemented of the /bin/sh's out there and that none of the other shells (generally referred to as /bin/sh) can be relied upon not to have incompatible foibles that would trip up a complicated script headed #!/bin/sh. Therefore, intentionally using #!/bin/bash (or #!/usr/bin/env -c /bin/bash - from memory) is much more likely to work without adjustments. Hence, it makes sense to stick to bash in one's day-to-day work. Of course, rc would be preferable, but the target platforms for Go are not all adequately endowed, and Byron's rc proves the point: it is slightly incompatible with Plan 9's rc. ++L
