Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 13:45:59 -0400 From: Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net>, Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk>, "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG>, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Scripting languages (was: Re: Package system flaws?) Message-ID: <6143E151-9FF6-11D6-AA65-00039312C852@automagic.org> In-Reply-To: <xzpheinokuu.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Thursday, July 25, 2002, at 12:03 , Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net> writes: >> well, I have a very low knowledge about zsh, but it has many features >> (maybe too much, IMHO) such as associative arrays and builtin dynamic >> loading... > > zsh is mostly a ksh clone. It can also emulate sh, csh and bash (and > even understands csh scripting syntax), but it's possibly not a good > enough sh clone to replace ash. At leat 3.x wasn't - I haven't > checked the docs lately, so it's possible that 4.x is better. Apple think zsh is good enough, fwtw: [jabley@hyperion]% ls -ali /bin/sh /bin/zsh 6027431 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 449616 Jul 12 19:04 /bin/sh 6027442 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 449616 Jul 12 19:04 /bin/zsh [jabley@hyperion]% diff /bin/sh /bin/zsh [jabley@hyperion]% uname -a Darwin hyperion.automagic.org 5.5 Darwin Kernel Version 5.5: Thu May 30 14:51:26 PDT 2002; root:xnu/xnu-201.42.3.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc [jabley@hyperion]% To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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