On 10 Dec 2006, at 09:49, Martin Ebourne wrote:
(The linux crowd would have been much better off keeping bash for
scripts and using zsh for interactive, yet another case of NIH
syndrome.)
Funny, I always thought zsh itself had the world's worst case of NIH
syndrome. The first quirk I ran into when trying out zsh is the one
that most shell scripters run into: interpolation of variables whose
values contain whitespace doesn't work the way you expect. About
which the zsh FAQ says:
The classic difference is word splitting, discussed in
question 3.1; this catches out very many beginning zsh
users. As explained there, this is actually a bug in
every other shell.
Now that's software with a truly hyperinflated sense of its own
importance!
-a
