On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:54:25 -0700, Chad Perrin <per...@apotheon.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:40:44PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:24:37 -0800, Rob Farmer <rfar...@predatorlabs.net> > > wrote: > > > > > > I've read it before. Who hasn't? > > > > I haven't. :-) > > While reading it, just keep this in mind: > > It's about "programming" in csh. It's not about using csh as an > interactive user shell. People who try to use it as "proof" that we > should not use csh as an interactive user shell don't get it.
>From my personal experience, I know that the C shell is not the best shell for scripting, but one of the best interactive shells. The article proves the first part of my statement to be quite... accurate, as the C shell really has some specific syntax - redirection and grouping are typical issues. But well, that's not a big problem as the C shell does not claim to be command-line compatible to (ba)sh. > I see from this you are not prone to confuse programming with an > interactive user shell. I'm old enough not to be cheated that easily. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
