Ale Terlevich writes:
 > 
 > 
 > On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Scott Ashcroft wrote:
 > 
 > > 
 > > Learning to program the bourne shell is important though as its best
 > > for scripts (you know it will always be there). Don't even think about
 > > csh scripting. 
 > > 
 > 
 >   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? :)

There's nothing wrong with csh scripting but from a portability
perspective sh(1) tends to be the one to use. Not all systems have
tcsh/perl installed. Although csh is usually available...

 >   Ta,
 > 	Ale.

Cheers Scott

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