Xref: utzoo comp.arch:20190 comp.unix.misc:816 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!csun!kithrup!sef From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: How wrong is MS-DOS? (or: Tools Tools Tools) Message-ID: <1991Jan13.085556.1332@kithrup.COM> Date: 13 Jan 91 08:55:56 GMT References: <11255@lanl.gov> Followup-To: comp.unix.misc Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. Lines: 21 In article spot@CS.CMU.EDU (Scott Draves) writes: >If you are saying you would never write production code in csh using >all those utilities, then I agree. And so will (nearly?) everyone >else. That would be slow and gross. I wouldn't be so quick with that, if I were you. Large portions of C News (most of it?) are written as shell scripts, and C News is considerably faster than B News (where larger portions were written in C). Use the right tool for the job; with UNIX, there's a good chance that "the right tool" will involve a combination of an already supplied program, and some of your own code (be it ksh, sh, csh, C, f77, whatever). Also, this is no longer an architectural issue; comp.unix.misc is where it belongs. -- Sean Eric Fagan | "I made the universe, but please don't blame me for it; sef@kithrup.COM | I had a bellyache at the time." -----------------+ -- The Turtle (Stephen King, _It_) Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.