On 2016-04-23 14:19, Teodoro Santoni wrote:
Hi,
2016-04-23 15:03 GMT+02:00, Marc Collin <marc.coll...@gmail.com>:
Hi.
Recently a user from suckless told me that bash sucks, but before I
could ask why he went offline.
I tried looking at suckless.org page about software that sucks, but
couldn't find anything about bash.
I can imagine why it sucks - no portability! #/bin/sh should be
enough for everyone. Is that it or is something else to the matter?
Maybe an entry to suckless.org suck page could be good to clarify
things and also warn new users.
Best wishes.
Just read the code. Just... sloc it, then compare the sloc count with
mksh's which has got roughly the same extra goodies bash has and
dash/ash hasn't.
I agree. It is worth looking at line counts. Here is a table listing the
number of .c and .h lines. (an exception is scsh written in .scm, .c and
.h)
gnu bash: 138227, 13746
zsh: 135589, 5698
shivers scsh: 118475, 27131, 1985
templeos: 119115, 0
mirbsd mksh: 29223, 2562
debian dash: 16503, 2084
freebsd sh: 15453, 1622
es shell: 9017, 1436
plan9 rc: 5989, 327
execline: 3794, 117
templeos is actually an entire self hosting operating system, compiler,
graphical environment with a shell, whole bunch of 3D games - I included
it for comparison.
execline works on a different concept than regular shells:
http://skarnet.org/software/execline/grammar.html
