Re: Python surpasses Perl in popularity?

2008-11-29 Thread Tam Ha
Stephane CHAZELAS wrote: > There's a common confusion in this in the nature of /bin/sh. > There's no standard (neither POSIX nor Unix) that specifies that > /bin/sh should be any variant of the Bourne shell. Sure there is, POSIX. Or rather their Austin Group. And while they done an extremely poor

Re: Python surpasses Perl in popularity?

2008-11-29 Thread Tam Ha
Jorgen Grahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >(I could get away with using Bash in these cases. It has functions, >local variables and so on. Writing portable Bourne shell is not as >much fun.) Can you explain this? Bourne is always more portable than Bash. That's why you'll find experienced shell