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From: swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren)
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Subject: Re: SVR4 /bin/sh BUG
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.141335.18438@convex.com>
Date: 17 Jun 91 14:13:35 GMT
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In article <1991Jun15.141609.848@ckctpa.UUCP> crash@ckctpa.UUCP (Frank J. Edwards) writes:
                                 [...]
>Why do *you* use csh?  What are the advantages (please be specific and
>objective) of csh over ksh?
                                 [...]

I got csh as my default shell on the first unix account I ever had.  So I
learned to write shell scripts in csh syntax.  Since then I have been required
to write many scripts in ksh syntax because our hardware diagnostic shell is a
superset of ksh.

I suppose that I am ruined because of the large number of csh scripts I have
written.  But the subtle distinctions in ksh on paren usage and placement of
whitespace in various circumstances always causes trouble for me.  I generally
have to write very short scripts that test my arithmetic expressions
seperately before I can include them in the rest of my scripts.  Often I find
myself mystified when I discover what it takes to get an expression to produce
the effect I desired.  For my purposes these distinctions are
counter-intuitive and cost me productivity.

Please note I am not a programmer; I am a hardware guy.  Of course there are
plenty of people here who swear by ksh.  But I prefer csh.

For my interactive shell I use tcsh, which provides me with interactive
benefits surpassing what ksh is currently capable of, while remaining
compatible with csh syntax.
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