On Sun, 10 Jun 2018, Chase wrote:

> Coding in cshell is considered harmful, and should be avoided when possible, 
> see this writeup: 
> http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/

There are many things to be said here, but those scripts are not needed for C 
shell programming.

> Plus, it really makes no sense to have two scripts that perform the exact 
> same function...

This is needed to set environment variables when using C shell interactively.
You cannot source Bourne shell script when running C shell and expect it to
set the variables.

So, yes, you need two scripts.

BSD's use tcsh as the default user shell and it is not going away soon.

Marcin

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