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On Sun, 15 Mar 2026 12:38:06 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 15/03/2026 08:01, c186282 wrote:
>> On 3/15/26 00:55, rbowman wrote:
> 
>>> My preference was tcsh, but in the early '90s bash conquered the Linux
>>> domain.
>> 
>>    It did.
>> 
>>    But that doesn't make it "best"  :-)
>> 
>> 
> Ah, that's deep philosophy.
> 
> Survival not of the best and fittest, but just the ones that happened to
> be in the right place at the right time...

Then the not so best and fittest coddle their own.