zsh/bash: troll detected KISS'ed shell

Keith MARSHALL wrote:
>
> >> really skilled, i would try to port zsh (wich is much powerfull
> >> than bash).
>  You are, of course, entitled to that opinion.  Personally, I consider
>  bash to be *more* than powerful enough :-)

there is a lot of little features that creates zsh addiction ( zed , zle 
multiline edition, ...).

Bash is not so featured and is bigger and slower (as i can see daily). 
So why use bash ?

>  Which is exactly why those of us who engage in such porting activity
>  use Cygwin or MinGW+MSYS.  AFAIK, Kees uses MinGW+MSYS to build the
>  GnuWin32 packages; no doubt, he will correct me if I'm wrong.
>
>  In fact, if you are serious about code portability, then you really
>  *must* eschew *all* of those fancy extended shell features of zsh,
>  and even of bash or ksh.

totally agreed with you : i told about zsh only as for the daily use. 
Not for makefiles (i don't know about the POSIX sh emulation of zsh)



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