Re: POSIX shell; bash ash pdksh & /bin/sh

To: Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>, Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com>
Cc: Debian Developers <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: POSIX shell; bash ash pdksh & /bin/sh
From: Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 12:42:43 -0400
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Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> wrote:
> Mmm, I thought we would agree that circular arguments are a stupid thing. 

No more than iteration (or recursion) is a stupid thing.

I think you're implying that our decision about bash is analogous to
the logical fallacy of having a circular argument with no base case.

-- 
Raul


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