On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Lionel Cons <lionelcons1...@googlemail.com>wrote:
> On 30 July 2012 07:32, Clark WANG <dearv...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > IMO a shell is different from a common purpose programming language, > though > > I would be happy if ksh can be as powerful and stable as Perl. > > I'd be careful with that statement. A lot of working groups at CERN > have stopped using perl because it is an unstable pile of shit. > Today's typical usage is to run it *twice* over the same data (which > is insane if you get more than 1PB a day) and compare the results to > make sure the data are correct. ksh93 doesn't have this kind of > problem. > Very interesting story for me. :) > > namespace support has been around for a long time, hidden behind > SHOPT_NAMESPACE. It is also implemented very straightforward so it > never concerned me. > This relieves me a lot since I know very little about how it's implemented. Thanks. > > > Lionel >
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