Re: [LOCATE ISSUE SOLVED:] Re: dumb question

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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
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