On 2024-03-10 19:35, Bart Schaefer wrote:
I sure do wish he'd show up and say hi. It mystifies me that he's so uncaring of his masterpiece.On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 7:22 PM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Rather dramatic there with ksh. Goes to show you the reason that caution should prevail.A similar thing happened with zsh back in the early 90s when Paul F. and I both got real jobs (Paul never came back to zsh)
I do dream of a Grand Unified Shell, where all the talent is focused on a single target. But that's not the way things work. It's a bazaar, not a cathedral. Still the competition is healthy.and some others took over for a while. There's a reason you don't really find zsh 2.5 mentioned anywhere. Of those others ... let's just say they'd rather have been working on ksh if it had been open sourced then.