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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
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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?  ;-)
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