Re: "Modern" sh (was Math routines)

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From: John Macdonald
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 1990 13:55

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In article <4011@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
|>It depends on when the last time you installed the system.  If it was
|>1979 or such, then your shell probably doesn't understand # comments
|>(I don't remember whether it was in the v7 shell, or not).
|
|"#" comments weren't in the V7 shell.  They are the 4.2BSD shell, and
|later BSD shells, and I think they were in the 4.1BSD shell as well;
|Berkeley added "#" comments to their otherwise V7-based shell. 

SCO (or Microsoft) supported "#" comments in System III, I don't recall
whether it did in V7.
-- 
Algol 60 was an improvment on most           | John Macdonald
of its successors - C.A.R. Hoare             |   jmm@eci386

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From: jmm@eci386.uucp (John Macdonald)
Subject: Re: "Modern" sh (was Math routines)
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