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Re: UNIX shells - Bourne and C



On 09/11/02 Osamu Aoki did speaketh:

> For POSIX complience, dash (from unstable, ash variant) is good.
> I thought csh is not for scripting...

    That's right. 

    http://www.perl.com/lpt/a/language/versus/csh.html

    Speaking from personal experience, csh sucks the big one for scripting.
That is, unless you like no functions and all global variables, and
non-deterministic behaviour. 

    Mike

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