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Known as the CommandLine to people nowadays, it is the main program used for interacting with a computer (besides graphical [DesktopEnvironment]s). It also implements a very high level ProgrammingLanguage that is available for both interactive and scripted use.
-The original [UNIX] shell is called the "Bourne shell", after its designer Steven Bourne. The executable is just called sh(1), and it's still the foundation of all modern [Shell]s on Unixoid OperatingSystems
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+The original [UNIX] shell is called the "Bourne shell", after its designer Steven Bourne. The executable is just called sh(1), and it's still the foundation of all modern [Shell]s on [Unix]oid [OperatingSystem]s
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The first derivate was Bill Joy's [C] shell, csh(1), meant to make shell scripting easier for [C] programmers. It was developed at [UCB] as the shell of choice for [BSD] systems. This shell suffered many problems in interactive uses and non, which eventually even prompted a CshProgrammingConsideredHarmful paper. It has not been released under a FreeSoftware license.
At [AT&T], David Korn derived the Korn shell, __ksh__, from the Bourne shell. This shell is completely backwards compatible with its predecessor and much more powerful. It is quite common on commercial [Unix] flavours such as [Solaris].
