From: John Carter <john.carter@...>
Date: 2008-08-13T05:33:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Sigh! I'm depressed. Debian vs Ruby and the backtick 	andsubshells

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On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> Why does Debian use dash? I've never even *heard* of dash until I s=
aw
> this thread! Is there some religious war against bash?

I believe it's sole claim / reason is it's "fastest POSIX sh compatib=
le shell"

But as I tell people, the Lowest Common Denominator amongst the *sh i=
s
sh, and it's very very Low indeed.

> "A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems." --
> Alfr=C3=A9d R=C3=A9nyi via Paul Erd=C5=91s

I turn coffee into Ruby.


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