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From: chet@pooh.INS.CWRU.Edu (Chet Ramey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is replacing /bin/sh with bash recommended?
Date: 26 Mar 1996 17:57:46 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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In article <4j0sto$scs@calypso.bns.com.au>,
Michael Talbot-Wilson <mike@calypso.bns.com.au> wrote:

>Er... the bash maintainer says bash is "too big and too slow".

That's more a statement of personal philosophy than anything else.
Just about every piece of software I use is too big and too slow.
The 4.4 BSD sh and tcsh are too big and too slow, too.

(Were there too many `toos' in the preceding paragraph for
you, too? :-)

-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer

Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University	Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu