[indiana-discuss] Bad press

[Tim Bray]

On Nov 5, 2007, at 12:19 PM, Josh Hurst wrote:

>> I don't know - from what I've seen so far, many people are happy with
>> the fact that the initial user's shell is bash (something that  
>> they're
>> familiar with)
>
> Didn't see anyone cheering about that except Mike and some die hard
> Linux proponents.

Excuse me?  I am a strong Solaris proponent, and I am trying to  
advance Solaris' cause by making it easy to attract people who've  
been living in Gnu/bash land.  This is the single largest group of  
people who are potential adoptees of Solaris, and if we don't make it  
easy for them to adopt, they won't.

> Faster, sleeker, cool tab completion, floating point math, follows
> standards - no bashism, history shared between multiple xterm windows
> and different machines with same HOME, gets along with ANY terminal
> type - even wyse and 4014 and unlike bash ksh93 is a Turing-complete
> programming language.

I'm trying to imagine someone who cares about floating point math in  
their shell.  -T