Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!mcnc!uvaarpa!umd5!mimsy!chris From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: who uses which shells Message-ID: <11640@mimsy.UUCP> Date: 24 May 88 13:16:42 GMT References: <1262@csun.UUCP> <5500021@snail> Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 21 In article <5500021@snail> carroll@snail.CS.UIUC.EDU writes: >... Of all the people we've had try to korn shell after the csh, >every one has switched permanently. Put it this way: Which shell does Mike Karels, chief architect of 4.3BSD, use? Answer: ksh. (Does anyone know which shell Bill Joy uses? :-) ) I think AT&T is making a mistake when not including ksh as a standard part of SysV. It is one very obvious bit of software that is clearly superiour to anything available in 4BSD, and they need all the technical advandages they can get. > "Too many fools who don't think twice > Too many ways to pay the price" - AP & EW But the next line is my favourite of those in that song: `Don't wanna live my life in the real world' -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris