On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 04:59:29PM -0800, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > I've always tried to make sure everything is lowest common > denominator between Microsoft and Linux unless there is a good > reason. I learned the hard way the first time I had to port from > Linux to Microsoft. I really dislike anything on my computers having > kittens. Heh. Unfortunately, if we're using a Linux box as server host for a bunch'o Win boxen, we'll get the Windows directory paths inside the shares. *Shrug*. It's the nature of the beast. > I think part of it was a dislike for style / syntax of scripting / > shells. ... > ... > ...I was brought up with programming languages > and assembler/machine, they defined my taste in tailors ... Well, remember the Bourne shell--the origin for sh, bash, etc.--was written to be ALGOL 68. So it's a programming language... An interesting little ditty, if you don't know it. Steve Bourne really loved ALGOL. So much so that he wrote the original shell *in* ALGOL...kind of. It was ostensibly 'C'...but he created an entire set of #defines to allow him to actually write the shell in ALGOL. When I heard this, I said, "Naw...". When I actually got to work at Bell Labs around 1980, and got access to the Unix source code, one of the first things I did was check the source. Yes, he did. This also explains why the original shell remained static for so long--it was a hellish mess; nobody wanted to be responsible for trying to change it. Cheers, -- Dave Ihnat dihnat@xxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
