Roland Mainz wrote: > Technically I only wrote the patch to end the bickering (since I > sometimes wish people would write more code and do less bickering) and > I apologize. I didn't intend to start an argument, or for it to sound like bickering.
I know all of these decisions have many constraints that govern them. I was more curious to hear the decision process that led to this. In my experience the two shells are pretty interchangable, and though I don't really know the differences, I know that some exist. I was looking to learn more about what might have been in bash that attracted development to it. > to show how the script could make use of ksh93 features (your script > would AFAIK work with both bash and ksh93, I only did some cleanup and > some changes to use more ksh93 features (e.g. compound variable arrays > which are AFAIK quite usefull in this case where you have label/value > pairs (e.g. I merged the two arrays in your script into one array where > each array element contains two values)) ... > > Thank you for this script too. It was even more educational. -Kyle > ---- > > Bye, > Roland > >
