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Re: posix compliance

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From: Jos Backus <jos@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Chet Ramey <chet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: posix compliance
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 21:29:39 -0701
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Reply-to: jos@xxxxxxxxxxx

    Hi Chet,

[T'was nice to meet you, btw.]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 05:19:24PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> > Indeed, his argument that things like these were causing them lots of
> > problems with zsh point to poorly written scripts in the first place. But
> > of course he's not going to admit that, least of all in public with the
> > bash maintainer standing next to him.
> 
> Oh, I wouldn't have minded.  There's a lot of crap out there, and shell
> scripts are no exception.

Absolutely. I just wish that he had been interested in discussing the real
problems they were undoubtedly having with zsh so they can be fixed; that's
how progress is made.

> ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet)

"Learning is suffering"? My Latin is rusty.

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