Thanks for the comparison table, that reveals a lot.
On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 8:49 PM, <ra...@openmailbox.org> wrote: > On 2016-04-23 14:19, Teodoro Santoni wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> 2016-04-23 15:03 GMT+02:00, Marc Collin <marc.coll...@gmail.com>: >>> >>> Hi. >>> Recently a user from suckless told me that bash sucks, but before I >>> could ask why he went offline. >>> I tried looking at suckless.org page about software that sucks, but >>> couldn't find anything about bash. >>> I can imagine why it sucks - no portability! #/bin/sh should be >>> enough for everyone. Is that it or is something else to the matter? >>> Maybe an entry to suckless.org suck page could be good to clarify >>> things and also warn new users. >>> Best wishes. >> >> >> Just read the code. Just... sloc it, then compare the sloc count with >> mksh's which has got roughly the same extra goodies bash has and >> dash/ash hasn't. > > > I agree. It is worth looking at line counts. Here is a table listing the > number of .c and .h lines. (an exception is scsh written in .scm, .c and .h) > > gnu bash: 138227, 13746 > zsh: 135589, 5698 > shivers scsh: 118475, 27131, 1985 > templeos: 119115, 0 > mirbsd mksh: 29223, 2562 > debian dash: 16503, 2084 > freebsd sh: 15453, 1622 > es shell: 9017, 1436 > plan9 rc: 5989, 327 > execline: 3794, 117 > > templeos is actually an entire self hosting operating system, compiler, > graphical environment with a shell, whole bunch of 3D games - I included it > for comparison. > > execline works on a different concept than regular shells: > http://skarnet.org/software/execline/grammar.html >
