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From: roe@sobeco.com (r.peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Dr David G Korn to speak at SVNet
Message-ID: <1990Mar11.160403.27949@sobeco.com>
Date: 11 Mar 90 16:04:03 GMT
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Organization: Sobeco Group - Montreal, Canada
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From article <2289@plx.UUCP>, by evan@plx.UUCP (Evan Bigall):
> In article <14020085@hpisod2.HP.COM> decot@hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot) writes:
>>> Under the title of "The Good, the Bad, and
>>> the Ugly", Dr. Korn will discuss programming style.  
>>
>>Not to discourage people from attending, necessarily, but has anyone
>>ever tried to read the ksh sources?
> 
> ksh was not (I believe) written from scratch, it was based on sh. 
> 
> sh contained some of the most notoriously bad sources in all of unix. 
> This has lots to do with it being very old, devloped in the infancy of 
> c and unix.

And even more to do with the fact that Bourne used the preprocessor
to turn C into a bizarre pascal-lookalike.  Truly the most difficult
code I've ever tried to modify.
-- 
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