[CentOS] Bourne shell deprecated?

JJB jack at internetguy.net
Wed Apr 27 22:48:30 UTC 2016


On 04/27/16 15:33, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> 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.

So *that's* what it is!  I have a copy of the source (on paper). What a 
hoot!  I thought he was trying to make C look like shell code.

Jack




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