From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jul 25 12:19:30 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 3D66837B400; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:19:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5996E43E31; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:19:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) id g6PJJPwW046495; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:19:25 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:19:25 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Cyrille Lefevre , Mark Valentine , "Brian F. Feldman" , Christian Weisgerber , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Scripting languages (was: Re: Package system flaws?) Message-ID: <20020725191925.GB62267@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200207231916.g6NJGTj47459@green.bikeshed.org> <200207232048.g6NKmHQe028433@dotar.thuvia.org> <20020724135321.GB4475@gits.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 In the last episode (Jul 25), Dag-Erling Smorgrav said: > 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 least 3.x wasn't - I haven't > checked the docs lately, so it's possible that 4.x is better. zsh's only drawback is it's comparatively huge when statically-linked; 1MB vs 500k for pdksh, and when statically linked, you can't load modules (although this is a FreeBSD dlopen() limitation in general, isn't it). -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message