here just look at this list and tell me what you think
rc.1.gz - 16K
bash.1.gz - 76K
bashbug.1.gz - 934B
cook_rsh.1.gz - 2.7K
fish.1.gz - 670B (Fish doesnt use manpages, it uses a builtin help
fish_indent.1.gz - 356B command which has the docs in html)
fish_pager.1.gz - 238B (although believe me the doc is big enough)
fish_prompt.1.gz - 386B
fishd.1.gz - 695B
ksh.1.gz - 41K
ksh93.1.gz - 48K
mksh.1.gz - 44K
zsh.1.gz - 6.4K
zshall.1.gz - 334K
zshbuiltins.1.gz - 30K
zshcalsys.1.gz - 11K
zshcompctl.1.gz - 8.9K
zshcompsys.1.gz - 60K
zshcompwid.1.gz - 15K
zshcontrib.1.gz - 38K
zshexpn.1.gz - 30K
zshmisc.1.gz - 25K
zshmodules.1.gz - 41K
zshoptions.1.gz - 18K
zshparam.1.gz - 17K
zshroadmap.1.gz - 3.4K
zshtcpsys.1.gz - 11K
zshzftpsys.1.gz - 10K
zshzle.1.gz - 23K
this is of course thinking that the manpages of shells are well written...
well not really but they do explain stuff unlike some other programs, but imagine! look at that, a new user, using the shell that thing you cannot avoid and he has to learn how to use the bourne shell, a shell that has well passed its expiration date
standards are fine as long as they've been revised, cleaned or fixed but they dont really fix it, they just take the same design and adapt it to today
instead of just redesigning it and saying "do i need this? can i make it cleaner?"
so before you just dive into something, just look at what you have to read, learn, churn, accumulate, and spit out (or in other words, how big of a headache is this?)
will you make a choice?, or will you just go with the standard?
comment and let me know why you went with what everyone used, did you look at your options?
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