Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!haven!mimsy!chris
From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Bourne shell
Message-ID: <17309@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 89 01:18:03 GMT
References: <5549@lynx.UUCP>
Distribution: na
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
Lines: 10

In article <5549@lynx.UUCP> m5@lynx.uucp (Mike McNally) writes:
>How is the BSD (version 7?) Bourne shell so small?

The V7 shell, like most V7 programs, is small because it does not
include any unnecessary `features'.  (It also avoids stdio, for various
reasons, mostly good; but mainly it is small because it was written
small.)
-- 
In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163)
Domain:	chris@mimsy.umd.edu	Path:	uunet!mimsy!chris