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posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 13.04.2024, 05:55

> For whatever reason, people are refusing to move off MSDOS.
>
> That's a huge challenge to the status quo, and that's a
> bloody good start.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw

I actually hate that quote. Progress is not eliminating (or marginalizing) all "inferior" tech.

Did you know PowerShell, written in C#, is the default shell on Windows nowadays? Not ancient CMD anymore. It even runs on Linux! (Mac switched to ZSH a few years ago.) Most Linuxes still use Bash (or dash, a modified ash). I forget which *BSD uses pdksh, maybe OpenBSD??

A lot of projects still require GNU Make (not BSD make, not "POSIX"). Just saying, a lot of "portability" is still hampered by the "POSIX shell" (GNU AutoTools), which requires fork(), which is cumbersome to work around. A lot of that was just to avoid a *nix vendor's broken libc. Heck, POSIX was invented to bridge the gap between SYSV and BSD.

It's just a mess. (I should make a different thread about strict "portability".)

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