<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Lightner, Jeff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jlightner@water.com">jlightner@water.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Calling Bourne a "subset" of BASH just sounds wrong to me - it implies BASH was first. Since Korn shell was an enhanced shell that built on Bourne and BASH takes a lot from both I'd say calling BASH a superset of Bourne/Korn/Posix makes more sense.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>If A is a superset of B, then B is a subset of A. I don't see the implications you apparently see and have no issue with calling the feature set of Bourne shell as a subset of the feature set of Bash. But that could just be me.<br>
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