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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>
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