Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:19:25 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net>, Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk>, "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG>, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Scripting languages (was: Re: Package system flaws?) Message-ID: <20020725191925.GB62267@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpheinokuu.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <200207231916.g6NJGTj47459@green.bikeshed.org> <200207232048.g6NKmHQe028433@dotar.thuvia.org> <20020724135321.GB4475@gits.dyndns.org> <xzpheinokuu.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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In the last episode (Jul 25), Dag-Erling Smorgrav said: > Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net> writes: > > well, I have a very low knowledge about zsh, but it has many > > features (maybe too much, IMHO) such as associative arrays and > > builtin dynamic loading... > > zsh is mostly a ksh clone. It can also emulate sh, csh and bash (and > even understands csh scripting syntax), but it's possibly not a good > enough sh clone to replace ash. At least 3.x wasn't - I haven't > checked the docs lately, so it's possible that 4.x is better. zsh's only drawback is it's comparatively huge when statically-linked; 1MB vs 500k for pdksh, and when statically linked, you can't load modules (although this is a FreeBSD dlopen() limitation in general, isn't it). -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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