Steve Bourneのインタビュー

• The A-Z of Programming Languages: Bourne shell, or sh - a-z of programming languages - Computerworld

Any one language cannot solve all the problems in the programming world and so it gets to the point where you either keep it simple and reasonably elegant, or you keep adding stuff.
...(略)...
So I decided that the shell had reached its limits within the design constraints that it originally had. I said ‘you know there’s not a whole lot to more I can do and still maintain some consistency and simplicity’.

こういう風に言えるのはカコイイな．