I was bitten by this today, so I am going to grump about it.Today's irritation with the Bourne shell is that the followingis illegal syntax:

echo hi &;

This probably looks peculiar and silly, so let me give a real examplethat is also illegal:

for i in *watch; do nohup ./$i >/dev/null 2>&1

So is ' ; ; ', and for the same reason: in the Bourne

Slashdot has recently started running what it calls 'Backslash'stories, which have (as it puts it):

[...] some of the most interesting comments and exchanges on a handfulof yesterday's Slashdot posts [...]

To me, the most interesting thing about these stories is that they area tacit admission that Slashdot's comment management model is brokenand that a lot of people don't read the comments on Slashdot stories.If most people did regularly read Slashdot comments,