From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jul 25 10:46:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3CE537B400 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 10:46:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from felix.automagic.org (felix.automagic.org [204.152.186.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 563B243E5E for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 10:46:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jabley@automagic.org) Received: (qmail 68749 invoked by uid 0); 25 Jul 2002 17:46:04 -0000 Received: from localhost.automagic.org (HELO hyperion.automagic.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.automagic.org with SMTP; 25 Jul 2002 17:46:04 -0000 Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 13:45:59 -0400 Subject: Re: Scripting languages (was: Re: Package system flaws?) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) Cc: Cyrille Lefevre , Mark Valentine , "Brian F. Feldman" , Christian Weisgerber , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav From: Joe Abley In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <6143E151-9FF6-11D6-AA65-00039312C852@automagic.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, July 25, 2002, at 12:03 , Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Cyrille Lefevre 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