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From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods)
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Subject: Re: - csh weirdness
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Date: Mon, 7-Apr-86 14:51:34 EST
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>  I don't see any reason
> to write scripts in the C-shell, except for the aforementioned
> exercising of masochistic tendencies.

  I do. csh(1) has a lot of built-in execution, whereas sh(1) has to
fork a separate process (test(1)) for every bloody "if" test. Bourne
shell scripts, on our poor overloaded VAX 750, are slooooooow.

--Greg