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From: rjs@clyde.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: "$@ in shell"
Message-ID: <105@clyde.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Aug-83 14:22:57 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 22 14:22:57 1983
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Previous articles have requested that no changes be made to sh since
there exists a large amount of code already written for it, some of which
might break.  This sort of attitude will cause the Unix* system to go
the route of FORTRAN, COBOL, and the IBM 370 architecture, namely it
will become obsolete due to stagnation.  I personally would like to see
the Unix system keep up with progress made in Computer Science and related
fields.  Although it shouldn't be changed at random and without warning,
it would be nice if at regularly scheduled intervals new releases were
put out which include changes that help make programs more readable, 
reliable, maintainable and all the other apple-pie 'able adjectives, or
which reduce the number of suprises a user may blunder into.  Keep the
Unix waters flowing.

	Robert Snyder
	{burl, floyd}!clyde!rjs

*Unix is a trademark of Bell Laboratories