From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 18 16: 2:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07BBF37BBE5 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 16:02:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e6IN2nb06199; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 16:02:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 16:02:49 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: "David J. Kanter" Cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: Is the C-shell (csh) a bad shell? Message-ID: <20000718160249.I13979@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000718175345.A95605@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20000718175345.A95605@localhost.localdomain>; from djkanter@northwestern.edu on Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 05:53:45PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * David J. Kanter [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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message