> I use tcsh because other people use it for writing scripts I have to run. 
> Those 

You have my pity.

> people use tcsh to write these scripts because these scripts set environment 
> variables, so you must source them, not execute in a sub-shell, and people 
> use 

. is even shorter than "source".

> tcsh as the interactive shell because that's the default system configuration 
> around here, and so they source scripts from tcsh, so there you are.
> 

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