Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone else having a problem with bash?

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Thu, 09 Jul 2015 15:07:40 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> >> <smug>I can't test it myself as a use a superior shell to
> >> Bash</smug>  
> >
> > Which one? And why is it superior to bash?  
> 
> Don't ask such questions ;-)
> 
> This is in the same vein as the "emacs vs vim" argument.

True, people persist with Bash and vim, but in the latter case it
appears to be because they actually like it :-O

Most people use Bash because it is the default and they have never tried
anything else - just like the situation with most computer users and
Windows.

I'd been lectured on the wonders of zsh in the past, but it was only when
I had to learn to use it (I wrote a comparative review of shells) that I
realised what it offered over Bash as an interactive shell. As a
scripting language, Bash is probably better, although if I need that
much functionality in a script I would use Python instead of any shell
variant.

We now return you to your scheduled programming.

 
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Neil Bothwick

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