[NTLUG:Discuss] Korn Shell

[Kevin Brannen]

cbbrowne at dantzig.brownes.org wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 29 Jul 2000 23:47:23 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as
> Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org>  said:
> > Christopher Browne wrote:
> > >
> > ...
> > > Doesn't it include Korn Shell?  I thought that /bin/ksh had gotten pretty
> > > ubiquitous by now, and it's a fair bit more functional than Original
> > > Bourne Shell.
> 
> If it's ubiquitous on anything for which service contracts are still
> available, that's good enough for me.  :-)

And if it's not there, you can download the source and put it there yourself. 
I think I got it from the AT&T site, IIRC (I can't seem to find a reference in
the README, but surely a good search engine could find it).

> Yes, but I seem to recall David Korn indicating that the one used on NT
> isn't very good.  [I also seem to recall this implementation being the
> MKS one, which is disappointing, because I knew some of the MKS folks,
> and would regard them as being _pretty good_ in implementing Unix
> functionality on all sorts of platforms...]
> --

I remember a story coming out some time back about a MS person describing they
had a KSH implementation and how good it was, at some conference.  Then a guy
in the back of the room stood up and started disagreeing with him on how it
wasn't implemented very well, had some feature wrong, etc.  The obvious
happened and it escalated.  Finally, a person went up to the guy on the stage
and pointed out to him that the person at the back of the room that he was
arguing with was David Korn (who did know what he was talking about). 
[Supposedly it's a real story.]

Kevin