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Author: Hendrik Boom
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Newbies threaten our purity :-)
On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 03:56:09PM -0700, Bruce Perens wrote:
> On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Rick Moen <rick@???> wrote:
>
> > I wrote:
> >
> > > Personally, I find that bash makes a fabulous file manager, along with
> > > its friends find, awk, sed, cut, etc.
>
>
> You young whipper snapper! Bash is for Stallmanite commies! The True
> Experienced Unix System Admin compiles the original Bourne shell from
> Bourne's original Algol-like macros, rather than the travesty of C (the
> Bournegol documentation is at http://oldhome.schmorp.de/marc/bournegol.html,
> not that real men _need_ documentation).


bash wasn't the original shell. Unix already had a shell when
Steve Bourne was still developing Algol 68 C on an IBM mainframe!

-- hendrik