Re: comments inside command subst are handled inconsistently

[Chet Ramey]

On 7/31/23 8:22 AM, G. Branden Robinson wrote:

> [John Mashey, the
>      author of the predecessor Unix shell (and successor to Ken
>      Thompson's original Unix shell) has gone on record as "goading"
>      Bourne into doing questionable things in the quest for speed.

This is true. Mashey's v6 shell and Bourne's shell were the two competitors
for the research Unix shell. A series of head-to-head bakeoffs resulted in
both shells doing questionable things for performance.


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