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Richard Coleman wrote:
> 
> I think the reality is that most people here would rather deal with a 
> few csh incompatibilities in order to have a much more featureful shell, 
> rather than use an ancient shell in order to get bug for bug compatibility.

I humbly suggest that /bin contain csh and tcsh.  Is that too hard?


> Writing a shell is hard work (I was involved in zsh development many 
> years ago). 

Yes, and writing shell scripts is done to maximize portability.  Ie csh 
is really csh, sh is really sh.  That is a lot of work.  It would be 
nice if the base system could be relied upon.

  Since there are plenty of good third party shells, there
> are many other tasks for which FreeBSD developers can better spend their 
> time.
> 
> Richard Coleman
> rcoleman@criticalmagic.com
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