csh vs tcsh

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:31:53 -0500
Derek Martin <blu at sophic.org> wrote:

> I will refer you to the multiply mentioned article about csh
> programming considered harmful.  The problems mentioned are those I
> describe as brain-damaged.  Writing scripts in csh is bad for your
> mental health.
That may be so. I've always preferred Bourne and its derivatives. Back
in the '80s I worked at a System V company. The system assumed that a
scriopt was CSH it the first character was a # (not #!/bin/csh). This
worked well except at one of our customers (eg. Bell Labs). All their
scripts had comments at the top. We had to make some changes to satisfy
them. 
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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