[Pine-info] Reducing KODRETRY

[Ryan Barrett]

On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Thorsten Glaser wrote:


>> http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/

>

> While I do agree on that, this is not intended as a shell flamewar... I


agreed, -1 to flame wars, but i have to qualify steven's citation.

"CSH Programming Considered Harmful" argues convincingly that csh and friends 
are inappropriate for *programming*, ie writing shell scripts. sadly, it's 
often misused to discourage using csh shells for *any* task, including as 
interactive shells. that's a shame.

i've used tcsh as my interactive shell for a long time. i prefer it due to a 
few features, mostly in its line editor, that give it the edge over bash for 
me. (but yes, i also use and love readline in other programs. :P)

sure, when i have to write non-trivial shell scripts, i turn to bash. i have 
no problem using one shell for scripting and another for interactive, though. 
use the best tool for the job (and for you), right?

-Ryan

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