On 2007-12-13 21:59, Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> On 2007-12-13 18:05, Chad Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I ran across this today: >>> >>> http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ >>> >>> Title: >>> Csh Programming Considered Harmful > > That was written sometime last millenium, I mean, it's REALLY old. The > question is sort of flamebait (you ought to go ask it on, say, the Linux > IRC channel, for well-reasoned, adult discussion (NOT!) In general, it's > right, you really wouldn't want to use tcsh as a scripting language. Read > it, you'll come out ahead, but understand, that tcsh is a heck of a good > general purpose command shell for users.
Tcsh is a fine shell. I'm using it all the time (that's how I found out that a buglet reported by Kris Kennaway a few months ago was indeed a bug which I could reproduce too). I just don't like it for scripting :-) _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
