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Linus Torvalds
torvalds at osdl.org
Tue Oct 24 16:15:05 BST 2006
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, David Rientjes wrote:
>
> Some of the internal commands that have been coded in C are actually much
> better handled by the shell in the first place. It's much simpler to
> write and extend as well as being much more traceable for runtime
> problems.
Yes. However, from a portability (to Windows) standpoint, shell is just
about the worst choice.
Not that perl/python/etc really help - unless the _whole_ program is one
perl/python thing. Windows just doesn't like pipelines etc very much.
So I'd like all the _common_ programs to be built-ins..
Linus
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