Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mandrill!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Re^2: Should ``csh'' be part of the System V distribution? Message-ID: <7828@ncoast.UUCP> Date: 31 May 88 02:24:47 GMT References: <2599@usceast.UUCP> <2601@usceast.UUCP> <10857@steinmetz.ge.com> <7941@brl-smoke.ARPA> <2132@munnari.oz> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.unix.wizards Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 18 As quoted from <2132@munnari.oz> by kre@munnari.oz (Robert Elz): +--------------- | Then surely no-one sane would actually write a csh script to be used | for anything more than personal uses, its programming language is so | foul (only just a bit better than the v6 shell it replaced) that you'd | have to be insane. +--------------- Umm, Robert, have you told this to Richard Stallman? Last I saw, just such a script was provided to build Gnu Emacs (and the Makefile does not do everything that typing "MAKE" to a 4.xBSD csh does). Or was that intended to be a comment about the Free Software Foundation and/or RMS? ;-) -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc {well!hoptoad,uunet!marque,cbosgd,sun!mandrill}!ncoast!allbery Delphi: ALLBERY MCI Mail: BALLBERY