Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 04:25:30 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful. Message-ID: <20071214022529.GA2571@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <20071214010542.GA19553@demeter.hydra> References: <20071214010542.GA19553@demeter.hydra>
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On 2007-12-13 18:05, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote: > I ran across this today: > > http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ > > Title: > Csh Programming Considered Harmful > > I wonder what responses I might get here, and how much of this applies > to tcsh as well (I'm still not exactly a tcsh expert). Most of the points made in the FAQ about scripting large `applications' with csh ring a bell for me. Now, having said that, /bin/sh is nice for small to medium-sized scripts, but there is a certain point where even sh(1) becomes annoying. Do you have any _particular_ parts of the csh-whynot article that you would like to discuss, or this is a free for all flame? :)
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