From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 23 7:31: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tethys.valhalla.net (tethys.valhalla.net [195.26.32.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E55FD37B491 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 07:31:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@tethys.valhalla.net) Received: by tethys.valhalla.net (Postfix, from userid 500) id 3EAF133235; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 15:31:05 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 15:31:05 +0000 From: Mark Drayton To: Jim Freeze Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Which programming shell, sh or csh? Message-ID: <20010223153105.A17466@tethys.valhalla.net> Mail-Followup-To: Jim Freeze , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jim@freeze.org on Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 10:21:11AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I am writing some small scripts for our users to help them interact > with cvs. I have looked at using either sh or csh, but I cannot find > any information as to why I would choose one over the other. I've never used csh myself, but I've read several documents saying it shouldn't be used. See Tom Christiansen's article for more info: http://www.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~sivann/pub/funnypics/computers/csh-programming-considered-harmful.html Cheers. -- Mark Drayton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message