From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 27 22:15:51 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE6B816A403 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 22:15:51 +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 B5B8143D45 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 22:15:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.pc (aris.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.226]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.6/8.13.6/Debian-1) with ESMTP id k3RMFXxc002740 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 28 Apr 2006 01:15:34 +0300 Received: from gothmog.pc (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.pc (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k3RMFYjt068185; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 01:15:34 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.pc (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k3RMFYQv068184; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 01:15:34 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 01:15:34 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Gary Kline Message-ID: <20060427221534.GC66819@gothmog.pc> References: <20060427024158.GA71123@thought.org> <20060427031043.GA69851@gothmog.pc> <20060427214854.GA2601@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060427214854.GA2601@thought.org> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-3.393, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.81, BAYES_00 -2.60, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE 0.20) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: scripting languages... 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: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 22:15:51 -0000 On 2006-04-27 14:48, Gary Kline wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 06:10:43AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > Don't you really mean ``C#'' by writing ``ch''? > > The only thing I recall reading about C# is that it was > a DOS/Win C++ ish language. ch is a C/C++ scripting language > that is like /bin/sh only with C syntax. Some C wizards > created a perl regex library for ch; thus my question. I've never heard of `ch'. I know what `C#' is, what `csh' is, what `sh', `ksh', `zsh' and several other shells are. I don't know what `ch' is though :-/ > The fact that perl is everywhere is in its favor; perl > gurus can deal with argc/argv in their *sleep*. I can't; > but it might interest you that many years ago I ported > perl from the Sun-3 to an IBM AIX 3090 (with all 6 CPU's). > Worked fine. HEH! That must have been fun :)