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| <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> |
| <pkgmetadata> |
| <maintainer type="person"> |
| <email>floppym@gentoo.org</email> |
| <name>Mike Gilbert</name> |
| </maintainer> |
| <longdescription lang="en"> |
| The KornShell language was designed and developed by David G. Korn at |
| AT&T Bell Laboratories. It is an interactive command language that |
| provides access to the UNIX system and to many other systems, on the |
| many different computers and workstations on which it is implemented. |
| |
| ksh has the functionality of other scripting languages such as awk, |
| icon, perl, rexx, and tcl. For this and many other reasons, ksh is a |
| much better scripting language than any of the other popular shells. |
| The code size for ksh is larger than the Bourne shell or C shell |
| programs. The revised version is even larger. |
| |
| In spite of its increased size, ksh provides better performance. You |
| can write programs to run faster with ksh than with either the Bourne |
| shell or the C shell, sometimes an order of magnitude faster. ksh has |
| evolved and matured with extensive user feedback. It has been used by |
| many thousands of people at AT&T since 1982, and at many other |
| companies and universities. |
| </longdescription> |
| </pkgmetadata> |