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Re: considered harmful (was [off topic] Learning Shell from an old UNIX book)



I wrote:
> I have no problem with csh (or tcsh) as a login shell.  It is just not
> suitable for scripting.

Johan Kullstam writes:
> I do.  If csh (and tcsh) suck for scripting, then why on earth use them
> as your shell?

I don't.

> If you make them your shell then you have to spend time learning their
> broken brain damage.  That's a waste.

Other people get to waste their time as they wish.  I just meant that I
have no objection to csh being available as a login shell.
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI



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