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From: koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Steven Grimm)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: csh on minix
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Date: 24 Sep 88 17:20:21 GMT
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In article <5870005@hpcvca.HP.COM> charles@hpcvca.HP.COM (Charles Brown) writes:
>>::> I want to put csh on my minix.
>>:: Why on Earth would anyone want to clone that mess? :-)
>> Because they're smart?
>No.  Because they've never used ksh.

How about:

- Because they're used to csh from another system.
- Because they have lots of csh scripts that they'd rather not convert.
- Because they like the way csh does some things (history, for instance).

And, maybe the most important reason for a hacker:

- Because it's there.

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