Re: surprise with echo

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/19/2014 06:55 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Dec 18, 10:58pm, Ray Andrews wrote:
> }
> } I love this historical banter. How many guys still with the project
> } overlapped with Falstad? Bart of course, anyone else?
>
> I may be the only one.  Paul was my employee for a while immediately
> after he graduated college.
>
> } So vital to have known the mind of the master.
>
> Chuckle.  When zsh was written he was a brilliant but inexperienced
> programmer, trying to help his csh-afflicted classmates get used to
> Bourne shell scripting.  He didn't continue working on zsh for long
> after entering the real world.
Well well ... so who, really, is/was the master, I asks myself? ...
Why did he decide on a new shell vs. working on/with bash?
Does he keep in touch?
> Much the same could be said of the man who added the programmable
> completion system several years later.