Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:00:11 -0430 From: Andres Perera <andres.p@zoho.com> To: Gary Gatten <Ggatten@waddell.com> Cc: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Backtick versus $() Message-ID: <AANLkTinu1KB=Lz7rsH5TiZXHr61gH8AWFP=quJ9=8iJH@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <21929_1298589484_4D66E72C_21929_309_1_D9B37353831173459FDAA836D3B43499BD35499F@WADPMBXV0.waddell.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1102201027170.56885@wonkity.com> <4D61599E.4040008@gmail.com> <AANLkTinJKcy8NyFzW9=6yKEY%2BF_payQVM108_=B7Gyjr@mail.gmail.com> <loom.20110224T210222-768@post.gmane.org> <AANLkTinQ4MMwWq77k1t-SwqE%2BzPep6VCNS9AKdT_H08b@mail.gmail.com> <loom.20110224T214917-136@post.gmane.org> <AANLkTik88V5Bb2BWM0Kpv3rWfek9_%2BgjqmEt6UbsVjpS@mail.gmail.com> <loom.20110224T220407-811@post.gmane.org> <AANLkTikAB--0Hrw76cbdzgfmeJMPt_N7isaw%2Byn_-QMn@mail.gmail.com> <20110224234044.0df661c1.freebsd@edvax.de> <20110224225425.GB13490@guilt.hydra> <20110225001301.e4f6d95f.freebsd@edvax.de> <21929_1298589484_4D66E72C_21929_309_1_D9B37353831173459FDAA836D3B43499BD35499F@WADPMBXV0.waddell.com>
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On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Gary Gatten <Ggatten@waddell.com> wrote: > Everyone is wrong! "pfmsh" is the best at everything, period. =C2=A0It do= es > everything you can possibly think of today and tomorrow. =C2=A0It doesn't > require any upgrades, ever. =C2=A0It's 100% secure. =C2=A0It doesn't use = any > memory or other resources, $hit, it doesn't even need to be installed; > it just "magically" works. you can ignore all you want, but there are shells of different quality, and tcsh is inferior to mksh in everyway there are no interactive features in csh that could justify its inclusion over mksh, and the code is regarded as horrible (as per author and people with eyes) because of the adhoc parser tcsh people fixed a few bugs, but that doesn't change that the intrinsic design is a mess. the tcsh also added stupid redundant builtins like ls-F mksh also has stupid builtins like cat, but it makes up for it by being an extremely solid shell and overall more polished than the horrible turd that is (t)csh
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