Re: tcsh as csh default

[Niko Nastonen <niko.nastonen%icloud.com@localhost>]

Does csh even exist anymore? I thought tcsh replaced csh and is now the main development branch of it.

> On 21. Oct 2022, at 15.15, Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost> wrote:
> 
>> The only time it ever made any sense at all to use csh for scripts
>> was in the brief period between [when csh appeared] and [when sh
>> appeared].
> 
> Speaking as someone whose preferred interactive shell is a csh
> derivative, I maintain exactly two csh-family scripts: my .cshrc and my
> .login.
> 
> Except for those two (which kinda have to be csh(ish) scripts), I use
> sh for scripting.  At least for my values of "better", sh is a
> significantly better _programming_ language, for all that csh has
> various things that make it a better _interactive_ language.
> 
> I won't weigh in on either side of "replace csh with tcsh".  I don't
> like tcsh much, but the reasons amount to "it's not what my fingers are
> used to"; I like stock csh even less, because it differs even more from
> what my fingers are used to.
> 
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