Subject: Re: Unixism, pipes and pkgsrc
To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_Wienck?= <awienck@solnet.ch>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/24/2007 10:22:36
André Wienck skrev:
> Salut,
> 
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:03:09 +0200, Johnny Billquist
> <bqt@softjar.se> wrote:
>> The gist of the article is otherwise to not write scripts in any shell, but to 
>> use Perl or something similar instead (hey, the guy who wrote it is/was a Perl 
>> consultant). But sh-advocates just jump on the "don't write in csh" as an 
>> argument pro sh. :-)
> 
> Actually, my argument pro sh is: if you write POSIX shell code, it will
> work on any system except Solaris. If you go into Bashisms or kshisms,
> you lose.

Well, if you write in csh it will work on all systems, including Solaris. :-)

	Johnny

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