Shell programming style -- a plea for better shell scripts
Brian McElhinney
mce at teldata.UUCP
Sun Feb 12 10:14:33 AEST 1984
*Sigh* I agree that sh is much more portable, but reading sh scripts
is painful... "case" and "esac"??? UNIX supports C, a standard UNIX
shell should at least resemble C. I never have understood why the Bourne
shell looks like Algol. (Not that I think a change is possible, just that
this is one more reason UNIX is not easily accepted)
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