On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Justin Zygmont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Compatibility and standards are areas where expectations of commercial
Unix users are high, IMO, and where not _all_ GNU tools are improvements
on their (formerly, in the case of OpenSolaris) proprietary models.
I can add bash to that list as well, it can be frustrating using
sh. Perfect example of a sysV tool stuck in the stoneage.
This looks like a missunderstanding.
Bourne shell stays Bourne shell.
Bash tries to reimplement ksh.
The fact that some Platforms do not care about backwards compatibility
and replaced /bin/sh by bash does not make a sysV system stoneage. They just
give you the freedom to choose your favorite shell.
Then the name is misleading since it stands for Bourne Again Shell, i've
found it able to execute bourne shell scripts 100% compatible, but not ksh
scripts.
I meant its just the Bourne shell that was stoneage, I don't
think its changed in about 20 years. I wrote complete programs in bash,
i'd find it hard to go back now. http://sourceforge.net/projects/ibbs
Thanks,
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