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From: satam@ecs.umass.edu (Kirtikumar Satam)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: which/type & built-ins : A question ?
Message-ID: <8819.25a1ff8d@ecs.umass.edu>
Date: 3 Jan 90 13:35:09 GMT
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In article <1990Jan2.160927.11935@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, 
chet@cwns1.CWRU.EDU (Chet Ramey) writes:
> Because `while' is a sh language construct (a statement), not a shell
   			  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^	
> builtin.  It's a small but important distinction, and one of the chief
  ^^^^^^^
> reasons that programming in sh is so much better than programming in csh
> (in csh, these constructs *are* implemented as builtins, using very ad-hoc
> parsing with thousands of special cases that serves to reduce their
> usefulness to almost zero). 
> 

Can you elaborate more on this??

-satam
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