On 3/1/24 23:28, Mouse wrote: >> I know some people who use csh. I don't know WHY, [...] > > As a csh user...well, okay, strictly speaking not csh but rather csh > with assorted things added, mostly command-line editing, but depending > on what is relevant about csh that may or may not matter. > > As a csh-family shell user, I use it for interactive use - and > interactive use only; I maintain exactly two csh scrits, my .cshrc and > my .login - because I find it better for interactive use. It has > various inconsistencies and idiosyncracies which I find are, for my use > cases, actually miswarts. > > Some one of these years, I intend to finish my own shell.... > >> and none of them are under 50, > > Interesting correlate. How many people do you know who use Unix > variants other than Linux?
MacOS? Lots. BSD? A few. > How many of them are under 50? Hadn't asked, but I think the majority of both groups? At Ohio LinuxFest in 2013 Kirk McKusick was a guest, and he talked about how their youth outreach thingy to bring new blood into BSD development was working very well. Most mac users aren't devs, but if you become a dev and a mac is what's in front of you... Even if it's homebrew, it's mac flavored. I did EMX on OS/2 back in the day, and I was an OS/2 dev: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMX_(programming_environment) The similarity made the eventual switch to Linux easier, but not free... >> Doesn't mean I have to support it. :) > > Yeah. Windows ain't dead either. :-) "Windows Subsystem for Linux" means I don't have to care. Long ago IBM added windows support to OS/2, basically their own version of Wine built into the OS. Which meant nobody bothered to write native OS/2 software anymore, since if they stuck to Win32s then OS/2 was also covered by shipping windows programs. Microsoft doing its own Win-OS/2 in the other direction decades later is... certainly a thing. Rob _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
