Re: [OT] punctuation (was Re: Configuring w3m for Mozilla)

[Preben Randhol <randhol@pvv.org>]

Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote on 22/09/2002 (10:01) :
> It pains me that you used that harsh language to describe my comment.

Sorry it wasn't my intention.

> just caught up in the excitement of the moment!  :-) Those are /bin/sh
> syntax, which I prefer better than anything that depends upon
> /bin/csh.  I don't know why you thought that was bash only. [*]

Somebody mentioned that it was only ash and bash that had this command.

> Those commands are defined by SUSv2.  I am pleased that I can refer
> you to these pages for your edification.  (And perhaps mine too in the
> case that I made a mistake here.  I am only too well aware that the
> sword can cut both ways.)
> 
>   http://www.unix-systems.org/single_unix_specification_v2/xcu/type.html
> 
>   http://www.unix-systems.org/single_unix_specification_v2/xcu/command.html

Thanks.
> 
> Repeat after me, "Standard is better than better."  And then say,
> "Every programmer should strive to write portable code."  But to do

Why do you think I use Ada95 :-)

By the way there is a shell called bush which can be interesting (at
least for scripting) : http://www.pegasoft.ca/bush.html

Preben
-- 
"When Roman engineers built a bridge, they had to stand under it while
 the first legion  marched across.  If programmers today  worked under
 similar  ground rules,  they might well find  themselves getting much
 more interested in Ada!"                              -- Robert Dewar