Criticism
The Bourne shell has been criticized for its shortcomings compared to the C shell.
- The Bourne shell was not as friendly for interactive use. C shell offered history, aliases, job control and other features that made it faster and easier to use.
- Even though the rest of the Unix system was written in C, the Bourne shell's grammar looked nothing like C; it looked like ALGOL, instead.
- It lacked an expression grammar. Even simple arithmetic had to be done using the external
testandexprutilities.
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