Bourne shell

[Chris Torek]

In article <5549 at lynx.UUCP> m5 at lynx.uucp (Mike McNally) writes:
>How is the BSD (version 7?) Bourne shell so small?

The V7 shell, like most V7 programs, is small because it does not
include any unnecessary `features'.  (It also avoids stdio, for various
reasons, mostly good; but mainly it is small because it was written
small.)
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