Jennifer Pioch wrote: > > I don't think we need to be religious. ksh93 is a superset of bash. Or > do you know any feature in bash which is not available in ksh93? I > know many things which work in ksh93 and not in bash, forcing me to > use python or perl instead when ksh93 is not installed, but nothing > which can be done only in bash. > So... why bother with bash at all? > > Jenny
Look at it this way; our profligate wastage of memory in using different shells gives you a large amount of freedom in selecting one in which to code your contributions to OpenSolaris. However, it does nothing at all to help you constrain others in their selection of shell or language for their projects. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts
