Re: Invalid Operating System

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From: Andrew McRae
Subject: Re: Invalid Operating System
Date: 17:24 on 10 Dec 2006
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!

-a

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