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From: dricej@drilex.UUCP (Craig Jackson)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: gripes about /bin/sh AND /bin/csh
Message-ID: <147@drilex.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Jun-86 21:29:33 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 17 21:29:33 1986
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Reply-To: dricej@drilex.UUCP (Craig Jackson)
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Summary: Nevertheless, sh ain't perfect

I think that the point of Phil's original article has been lost: there exist
other operating systems, with other command languages, which can do certain
common things in a more straitforward way than either /bin/sh or /bin/csh.
I think the reading from more than one file at once is a good example; I
hadn't thought of the solution using multiple descriptors; and I've rtFm many,
many times.  In fact, I rtFm for /bin/sh every time I write more than a
two-line routine.  As for /bin/csh, I've never been able to spare the mental
space to remember them both at once.

To reiterate my heresy: there are nicer command languages than the Unix shells.
(REXX is a nice one, even though it does come from Satan.:-))
-- 
Craig Jackson
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