From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 14 02:25:58 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7624116A417 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:25:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7C7013C442 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:25:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kobe.laptop (dialup202.ach.sch.gr [81.186.70.202]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.14.1/8.14.1/Debian-9) with ESMTP id lBE2PYCx022106 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 04:25:47 +0200 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id lBE2PVJK002660 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 04:25:33 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id lBE2PUpR002659 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 04:25:30 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 04:25:30 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: FreeBSD Questions Message-ID: <20071214022529.GA2571@kobe.laptop> References: <20071214010542.GA19553@demeter.hydra> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071214010542.GA19553@demeter.hydra> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.949, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.45, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Subject: Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:25:58 -0000 On 2007-12-13 18:05, Chad Perrin wrote: > I ran across this today: > > http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ > > Title: > Csh Programming Considered Harmful > > I wonder what responses I might get here, and how much of this applies > to tcsh as well (I'm still not exactly a tcsh expert). Most of the points made in the FAQ about scripting large `applications' with csh ring a bell for me. Now, having said that, /bin/sh is nice for small to medium-sized scripts, but there is a certain point where even sh(1) becomes annoying. Do you have any _particular_ parts of the csh-whynot article that you would like to discuss, or this is a free for all flame? :)