bash me, if you like

[ada at noether.geekgirls.r-us.com]

In article <3FD711AD.20400 at xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Richard Coleman wrote:
> In the beginning, zsh was actually based on ksh with features added to 
> make csh users more comfortable.  These days, it's a kitchen sink of 
> features and can emulate most of the other common shells.  Although it's 
> been awhile, I was one of the primary maintainers for zsh for several years.

the kitchen sink of features is actually worthwhile, especially the 
programming features.  it means that startup scripts, etc can do things
either without calling external processes, or without making nasty messes.

(decent arrays and associative arrays are the main feature I'm talking about.)