Hi,
I am one of many people who have great difficulty understanding why
it is necessary to retain a twenty year old shell as the main shell program.
Since ksh was designed to run legacy Bourne shell scripts, the stubborn
insistance on continuing to use this this thing is very frustrating. It isn't
as bad as csh for programming, but pretty awful nevertheless. And the,
"you can always use /usr/xpg4/bin/sh" argument doesn't wash. It's too
hard to always insert re-exec code in every shell script. Using the lowest
common denominator with hard-wired /bin/sh would be easiest.....if only
one implementation had something more recent than a 1980's version
of Bourne's shell. Thank you. - Bruce
