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add sh/bash to pain list

add sh/bash to pain list

Posted Feb 22, 2007 12:58 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: add sh/bash to pain list by drag
Parent article: The Road to KDE 4: CMake, a New Build System for KDE (KDE.News)

$(...) has been in POSIX for, oh, years: I know I was using it on Solaris in 1996. I think it dates all the way back to ksh88.

And you're right, there's no call to use `` anymore at all. They're not even easier to read than $(...).


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