tcsh (Re: [Pine-info] Reducing KODRETRY)

[Steven W. Orr]

On Tuesday, Jan 2nd 2007 at 11:27 -0800, quoth Matt Ackeret:

=>On Tue, 26 Dec 2006, Steven W. Orr wrote:
=>>Please read this as many times as it takes to master any shell man page. 
=>>(hint: 50 is a minumum.)
=>>
=>>http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/
=>>
=>>The history of why you were duped into using csh/tcsh/whatevercsh goes 
=>>back to the early days of SunOS when Sun made the csh the default shell 
=>>for their boxes. Read the whynot. Learn bash. Love it. csh's should all 
=>>simply be deleted.
=>
=>Get real.
=>
=>I like tcsh. 
=>
=>To use your same "logic":
=>
=>The history of why you were duped into using pine is because computers were
=>originally text based, and didn't have a GUI.  Now that computers have a GUI,
=>you are being a Luddite bozo for using a primitive email program like pine.
=>
=>
=>How do you like that?
=>

No need to get personal. Maybe I'm old(er) but I just appreciate the 
economy of saying what I want to say without living in a constant 
environment that provides me with the font controls that I would only 
rarely, if ever, use, and which would at all times cost me (and all the 
people I talk with) a size increase of about an order of magnitude. 

You may continue to use tcsh and I won't hold it against you. I am however 
confidant that my reasoning for why you shouldn't is sound. I have no idea 
what you do for a living but as a software engineer, I have found that 
people in my profession tend to use things like their login shell and 
their editor of choice all day long. My preference is to work with people 
who are obvious power users of those components. Being a power user of a 
shell that doesn't allow for subroutines is an oxymoron.

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