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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: csh problem involving nested ifs?
Keywords: csh, bug, nested if
Message-ID: <7293@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jul 89 06:59:11 GMT
References: <685@wuphys.UUCP> <2974@helios.ee.lbl.gov> <4948@ficc.uu.net>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <4948@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
> Basically, it is undesirable to use the 'C' shell for any complicated
> scripts... or any scripts at all other than .cshrc and .login.

This is a fairly widely held viewpoint, but when you get down to it,
neither the bourne shell, nor c-shell provide very elegant programming
languages.  C-shell does allow "prettier code", but the inconsistancies
will nip you from time to time.  Bourne shell scripts do have the
major advantage of being transportable back into the USG world, which
may or may not matter for the task at hand.

I here there's now a alt.computers.religion topic for just this sort of rwar...

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