Backtick versus $()

[Chad Perrin]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 09:59:40PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Chad Perrin <perrin <at> apotheon.com> writes:
> 
> > > That’s a FreeBSD® specific issue though. Other operating systems
> > > did the sensible thing ages ago ☺
> > 
> > What exactly is "the sensible thing"?
> 
> http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/user/
> user.c.diff?r1=1.116&r2=1.117&only_with_tag=MAIN
> 
> http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20050328171714&thres=0&mode=expanded
> 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.miros.cvs/3279

So . . . we've determined three things:

1. You think some measure of popularity of a decision makes it correct.

2. You don't like (t)csh.

3. You think your opinions are so self-evident that everybody will just
immediately understand them, their reasoning, and the best way to proceed
from there.

What we have not yet determined is:

1. Is it a good idea to replace (t)csh?

-- 
Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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