Re: Invalid Operating System

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From: Martin Ebourne
Subject: Re: Invalid Operating System
Date: 17:27 on 10 Dec 2006
On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 17:24 +0000, Andrew McRae wrote:
> On 10 Dec 2006, at 09:49, Martin Ebourne wrote:
> > (The linux crowd would have been much better off keeping bash for
> > scripts and using zsh for interactive, yet another case of NIH
> > syndrome.)
> 
> Funny, I always thought zsh itself had the world's worst case of NIH  
> syndrome. The first quirk I ran into when trying out zsh is the one  
> that most shell scripters run into: interpolation of variables whose  
> values contain whitespace doesn't work the way you expect. About  
> which the zsh FAQ says:
> 
>      The classic difference is word splitting, discussed in
>      question 3.1; this catches out very many beginning zsh
>      users. As explained there, this is actually a bug in
>      every other shell.
> 
> Now that's software with a truly hyperinflated sense of its own  
> importance!

I've scripted quite a lot in zsh (and ksh, sh, bash) and I agree with
the zsh guys on that one. Just sometimes everyone else really is wrong.

Martin.

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