(In fact, me'd
even argue that UNIX could use a "lessons-learned"
rewrite altogether. But that's once again beyond our purview.)
--zeurkous.
You've read 'the cathedral and the bazaar' of course. If I were a
gazilionaire I'd pay some hotshots to rewrite the whole thing from
the bedrock up -- build a cathedral. Same with zsh -- pay the devs
to really get things right. Think Haussmann redoing Paris.