Re: Bourne shell deprecated?

[Jon LaBadie <jcu@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 03:32:49PM -0453, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> 
> From NetBSD 6.1.5:
> 
> 
> 4256EE1 # man sh
...
> SH(1)
> 
> NAME
>      sh -- command interpreter (shell)
...
> 
> HISTORY
>      A sh command appeared in Version 1 AT&T UNIX.  It was, however,
>      unmaintainable so we wrote this one.
> 

The V1 shell was of course not Bourne's.

However Bourne's code was consider "unmaintainable" as he was an
algol coder, not a C coder.  He had numerous macros defined to
allow him to use his algol coding style with a C compiler.

jl
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