[TUHS] A few comments on porting the Bourne shell

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/1/23 6:28 AM, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:

> I also recall that there was some USENET discussion in which
> Rob Pike described how the 8th edition shell changed the search
> order to have functions come before non-special built-ins, with
> the addition of "builtin" and "whatis" commands.

I have this somewhere. It's a rocking back-and-forth between Rob and
David Korn about shell philosophy. Well worth the read if you can find it.

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