28 Apr
2016
28 Apr
'16
12:33 a.m.
On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 03:32:49PM -0453, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
From NetBSD 6.1.5:
4256EE1 # man sh
...
SH(1)
NAME sh -- command interpreter (shell)
...
HISTORY A sh command appeared in Version 1 AT&T UNIX. It was, however, unmaintainable so we wrote this one.
The V1 shell was of course not Bourne's.
However Bourne's code was consider "unmaintainable" as he was an algol coder, not a C coder. He had numerous macros defined to allow him to use his algol coding style with a C compiler.
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