[TUHS] Book Recommendation [ reallly inscrutable languages ]

[arnold at skeeve.com]

Chet Ramey <chet.ramey at case.edu> wrote:

> On 11/18/21 2:03 PM, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
>
> > Also remember that there were plenty of people who were happy working
> > with the shell and the Unix toolkit as-is.
>
> I would argue that this functionality gap is what inspired David Korn to
> put as much into ksh as he did. The first `public' version of ksh was
> released in 1983.

This is a good point. Those of us with access to ksh made use of
its features when scripting. (Speaking for myself.)

Arnold