Stephane CHAZELAS wrote:
>
> pdksh is the implementation of ksh I will most likely be using,

On commercial systems, too?

> ksh88 being not free software

But it's the one available on most (all?) commercial Unixes.

> and ksh93 being more like an
> experimental/joke shell in my opinion.

It has a stable base for 15 years. Beyond that its development
proceeds; only in this respect (i.e. the new features they add)
I might call it experimental. Usually, as long as new features
are in the evaluation/experimentation phase they are left quite
latent in the code or docs and will become published eventually.

> If you search the
> archives of this group, you'll notice I'm not a big fan of ksh
>

I need not search to know about that :-) And that's the only
explanation why you're using the term "joke" in this context.

> holding it responsible for most of the flaws in modern shells
> design.

ksh? or rather the bourne shell base?

Janis