The Bourne shell is a Unix command-line interpreter and scripting language written by Stephen Bourne at Bell Labs and introduced with Version 7 Unix, replacing the earlier Thompson shell. Its command name is sh. It added features that made shell scripting practical, including control-flow constructs, variables, here-documents and command substitution, and it became the standard Unix scripting language. Its successors include the Korn shell, Bash, whose name is a pun on Bourne-again shell, and the Z shell, and the POSIX standard for the shell is based on it. Bourne also wrote the Algol 68C compiler.
Before and after
- 1979Establishment of Serra da Capivara National Park
- 1979Moon Treaty
- 1979Founding of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- 1979Establishment of Sangay National Park
- 1979Invention of Bourne shell
- 1979Global life expectancy reaches 60 years
- 13 February 1979Birth of Anders Behring Breivik
- from 17 February 1979 to 16 March 1979Sino-Vietnamese War
- 4 March 1979Discovery of Metis
More in Science & technology
- 25 April 1953Watson and Crick publish the structure of DNA
- 1973Mobile phone
- 20 November 1985Creation of Microsoft Windows
- 1996Discovery of copernicium
- August 2003Discovery of moscovium
- 2006Discovery of nihonium
The era
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