>From: Wayne Berke <berke@panix.com>
>
>In message <m0tZpyF-000J8HC@europa.com>, Max Bell writes:
>>[work arounds for lack of double quote escaping within double quoted terms
>>omitted]

>My point is that Tom Christensen brings up some valid issues in his
>paper.  Basic operations that are straightforward in sh (such as escaping
>dquotes within dquotes), you either can't do in csh or you have to go through
>backhoops to do them.  Another example is splitting stdout and stderr.
>In sh, you can do:
>
>[illustation of superior stderr redirection in Bourne vs C shell omitted]

And my point is that while Tom does have some valid comments about areas of
weakness in the C shell, and makes a good case for using Bourne instead for
production scripts, it ignores the fact that the Bourne shell has its own
set of problems and strays beyond facts into personal aesthetics.

Max