Subject: Re: Struggling with RiscBSD: Update
To: Ale Terlevich <A.I.Terlevich@durham.ac.uk>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 09/17/1997 00:20:17
> On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Scott Ashcroft wrote:
> I do keep hearing this, and as a non computer scientist (I just (ab)use
> UNIX systems all day long) noone's ever told me why!
>
> So I'm asking you all now, What's wrong with (t)csh scripting?
>
> I mostly use perl for anything complex anyway. Nothing wrong with that is
> there? :)
Nothing at all :)
From a scripting viewpoint {t,}csh has some _serious_
braindamages, pet hate of which is its inability to correctly
handle filedescriptors (eg: stdout vs stderr), and lack of a case
statement...
David