On 7/31/23 8:22 AM, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
[John Mashey, the
author of the predecessor Unix shell (and successor to Ken
Thompson's original Unix shell) has gone on record as "goading"
Bourne into doing questionable things in the quest for speed.
This is true. Mashey's v6 shell and Bourne's shell were the two competitors
for the research Unix shell. A series of head-to-head bakeoffs resulted in
both shells doing questionable things for performance.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
