...tool for the advanced and professional user". Where did it originate? Bash was originally written in 1987 by BrianFox of the Free Software Foundation. The current developer and maintainer is Chet Ramey of Case Western Reserve University...
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/09/22/232382/hot-skills-bash.htm
...Ramey about his experience maintaining Bash. "Bash, or the Bourne-Again Shell is a Unix shell created in 1987 by BrianFox. According to Wikipedia, the name is a pun on an earlier Unix shell by Stephen Bourne (called the Bourne shell...
http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-05-31-005-26-IN-DV