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Re: zsh vs bash



On Sat, 8 Mar 1997, Bob Clark wrote:

> This is *not* a flame.  This list is kind of touchy lately.  It's just
> that I'm a big fan of bash (with vi editting mode instead of emacs) and
> if there's a better shell out there I'd like to give it a try.  It just
> doesn't sound like zsh has anything to offer that bash doesn't. 

Speed.  Bash is cumbersome.  But if you have the computing power
it I don't see that zsh has too much else.

> Comments anyone?

Personally I think they should write a bourne shell in Perl (psh?).
Now that could be fun.

--
Brian S. Julin


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