shell compiler?

[#Bill_Stewart]

In article <6637 at utzoo.UUCP> henry at utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>Doug was referring to modern Bourne shells, e.g. the SVR2 one.  The 4.2BSD
>Bourne shell ought to be in a museum.  If you can get licensed for SVR2 at
>a reasonable price, it's worth it for the shell alone.
Alternatively, if you have a System V (probably System III?) license,
get the Korn Shell (ksh) from us.  It works on 4.*BSD, System V**, V8, etc.
and is the first shell I've seen that did history right.
	And the V8 addicts don't like it, which may also say something :-)
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# Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs 2G-202, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs