[colug-432] Why Bourne Shell Compatible: Portability

Ethan Dicks ethan.dicks at gmail.com
Wed Aug 10 13:36:50 EDT 2011


On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Richard Troth <rmt at casita.net> wrote:
> Back in my day (ahem!) the question was "are you a C shell guy or a
> Bourne shell guy?".

I got asked that last month in a job interview.  I think the last C
shell script I wrote was in the 1980s on a VAX running BSD.  Since
then, it's been some tcsh code on Solaris, and a lot of sh and bash
stuff everywhere else.

-ethan


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