In particular, Environment variables and related machinery were designed by Stephen Bourne, John Mashey, and Dennis Ritchie as a general mechanism to replace the earlier, more limited features.
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These features could not overcome the shortcomings of the Thompson shell, and so a new shell was written from scratch by Stephen Bourne.
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