From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 14 03:34:14 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 98E9E16A468 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:34:14 +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 1E40713C4E8 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:34:13 +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 lBE3XYDe028035 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 14 Dec 2007 05:33:49 +0200 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id lBE3XYu1003496; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 05:33:34 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id lBE3XYQN003495; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 05:33:34 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 05:33:33 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Chuck Robey Message-ID: <20071214033333.GA3455@kobe.laptop> References: <20071214010542.GA19553@demeter.hydra> <20071214022529.GA2571@kobe.laptop> <4761F17F.9030908@chuckr.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4761F17F.9030908@chuckr.org> 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 Cc: FreeBSD Questions 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 03:34:14 -0000 On 2007-12-13 21:59, Chuck Robey wrote: >Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> 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 > > 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. Tcsh is a fine shell. I'm using it all the time (that's how I found out that a buglet reported by Kris Kennaway a few months ago was indeed a bug which I could reproduce too). I just don't like it for scripting :-)