Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 16:02:49 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: "David J. Kanter" <djkanter@northwestern.edu> Cc: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Is the C-shell (csh) a bad shell? Message-ID: <20000718160249.I13979@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20000718175345.A95605@localhost.localdomain>; from djkanter@northwestern.edu on Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 05:53:45PM -0500 References: <20000718175345.A95605@localhost.localdomain>
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* David J. Kanter <djkanter@northwestern.edu> [000718 15:57] wrote:
> I'd like to learn a shell fairly well and chose csh because it's in the base
> FreeBSD system (a little graybeard character) and I found good documentation
> on it written by William Joy. But I've read some things that it's a "bad"
> shell.
>
> Is it?
>
> It seems that, at some level, all shells are essentially equal. But when
> shells start to divide is csh left in the dust? What about the shells I've
> read rave things about: Korn and Bash.
>
> I've got C++ experience, so maybe that's why I chose csh too.
*** CSH PROGRAMMING CONSIDERED HARMFUL ***
Resolved: The csh is a tool utterly inadequate for programming,
and its use for such purposes should be strictly banned!
http://arch.freeciv.org/aclug-l-199811/msg00018.html
-Alfred
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