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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: shell compiler?
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Date: Mon, 28-Apr-86 13:44:11 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 28 13:44:11 1986
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> >We have both an Adventure shell and a C shell implemented as Bourne
> >(SVR2) shell scripts, with acceptable performance.
> 
> At least for the 4.2 BSD Bourne shell I don't agree that performance is
> acceptable for the Adventure shell...

Doug was referring to modern Bourne shells, e.g. the SVR2 one.  The 4.2BSD
Bourne shell ought to be in a museum.  If you can get licensed for SVR2 at
a reasonable price, it's worth it for the shell alone.
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