Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:57:12 -0500 From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> To: Konstantinos Pachnis <kpachnis@freemail.gr> Cc: Zbigniew Komarnicki <cblasius@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: csh programing book Message-ID: <47658318.8060506@chuckr.org> In-Reply-To: <4765008E.1000704@freemail.gr> References: <200712141742.30001.cblasius@gmail.com> <4765008E.1000704@freemail.gr>
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Konstantinos Pachnis wrote: > Zbigniew Komarnicki wrote: >> Hello! >> >> Is there a good programming book for csh as for example for bash (free >> available) ? >> >> For bash is here: >> http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ >> >> Is such book for csh on the net (free available) ? >> >> Thank you for any hints. >> >> Best regards, >> Zbigniew > O'reilly has a book regarding csh & tcsh named Using csh & tcsh but it's > not covering programming and it is not free either > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/tcsh/. > For shell programming you should consider using an alternative shell > such as bash, zsh and/or ksh, all available on FreeBSD ports collection. I've seen lots of csh books, now and then, I have several here, but there are certainly more sh books. There are several bash books now, due to all the Linux programmers, but I have to agree that while bash makes a pretty good programming shell, at least IMO, it makes a poor fit as a friendly user shell. Actually, I like ksh better, if you are really going all out for a programming shell, but if you're really after a scripting language, why restrict yourself to shells? things like Python & Ruby knock hell out of both ksh and bash. That's hardly even arguable. Too bad there isn't a good friendly shell-like mode to Python. Ruby would be out there, you couldn't even think about using a OO based tool for a user shell, those things need to be thought out, and that's the antithesis of being a friendly shell.
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