On 12/15/2010 4:17 AM, Marc Herbert wrote: > [...] > I use and abuse the shell but I do not consider it as a "real" > programming language is because it was not really designed as one from > day one. It rather grew from the command line interface as explained > in this great interview of Steve Bourne: > > > http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/279011/a-z_programming_languages_bourne_shell_sh/ > > [...]
Actually, I got a completely opposite impression after reading the article :) From the article [about a shell that predates sh]: "The original shell was simple but as people started to use Unix for application development and scripting, it was too limited." Later on on sh: " - Was there a particular problem that the language aimed to solve? The primary problem was to design the shell be a fully programmable scripting language that could also serve as the interface to users typing commands interactively at a terminal." Ilya Bobyr
