• # Ça me fait penser ...

    Posté par . En réponse au journal la puissance du bash sous windows ?. Évalué à 10.

    Je vous copypasta cette petite histoire, également disponible sur la toile, mais ce sera plus lisible comme ça:

    I've been attending the USENIX NT and LISA NT (Large Installation Systems
    Administration for NT) conference in downtown Seattle this week.

    One of those magical Microsoft moments(tm) happened yesterday and I
    thought that I'd share. Non-geeks may not find this funny at all, but
    those in geekdom (particularly UNIX geekdom) will appreciate it.

    Greg Sullivan, a Microsoft product manager (henceforth MPM), was holding
    forth on a forthcoming product that will provide Unix style scripting and
    shell services on NT for compatibility and to leverage UNIX expertise that
    moves to the NT platform. The product suite includes the MKS (Mortise
    Kern Systems) windowing Korn shell, a windowing PERL, and lots of goodies
    like awk, sed and grep. It actually fills a nice niche for which other
    products (like the MKS suite) have either been too highly priced or not
    well enough integrated.

    An older man, probably mid-50s, stands up in the back of the room and
    asserts that Microsoft could have done better with their choice of Korn
    shell. He asks if they had considered others that are more compatible
    with existing UNIX versions of KSH.

    The MPM said that the MKS shell was pretty compatible and should be able
    to run all UNIX scripts.

    The questioner again asserted that the MKS shell was not very compatible
    and didn't do a lot of things right that are defined in the KSH language
    spec.

    The MPM asserted again that the shell was pretty compatible and should
    work quite well.

    This assertion and counter assertion went back and forth for a bit, when
    another fellow member of the audience announced to the MPM that the
    questioner was, in fact David Korn of AT&T (now Lucent) Bell Labs. (David
    Korn is the author of the Korn shell)

    Uproarious laughter burst forth from the audience, and it was one of the
    only times that I have seen a (by then pink cheeked) MPM lost for words
    or momentarily lacking the usual unflappable confidence. So, what's a body
    to do when Microsoft reality collides with everyone elses?