Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:59:11 -0500 From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful. Message-ID: <4761F17F.9030908@chuckr.org> In-Reply-To: <20071214022529.GA2571@kobe.laptop> References: <20071214010542.GA19553@demeter.hydra> <20071214022529.GA2571@kobe.laptop>
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Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2007-12-13 18:05, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote: >> I ran across this today: >> >> http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ >> >> Title: >> Csh Programming Considered Harmful That was written sometime last millenium, I mean, it's REALLY old. The question is sort of flamebait (you ought to go ask it on, say, the Linux IRC channel, for well-reasoned, adult discussion (NOT!) In general, it's right, you really wouldn't want to use tcsh as a scripting language. Read it, you'll come out ahead, but understand, that tcsh is a heck of a good general purpose command shell for users. >> >> 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? :) > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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