home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!hsdndev!husc-news.harvard.edu!husc-news!huang1
- From: huang1@husc11.harvard.edu (Howard Huang)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: The Revenge of CSH
- Message-ID: <HUANG1.92Dec29101449@husc11.harvard.edu>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 15:14:49 GMT
- Article-I.D.: husc11.HUANG1.92Dec29101449
- References: <Bzz748.GDK@csn.org>
- Organization: Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services, Cambridge, MA
- Lines: 34
- Nntp-Posting-Host: husc11.harvard.edu
- In-reply-to: bazyar@teal.csn.org's message of 28 Dec 92 15:31:18 GMT
-
- bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar) writes:
-
- I am continually shocked and dismayed to see people not have
- command line editing, arrow-key history, job control, or many
- of the other things that csh (tcsh) provides and /bin/sh does not.
-
- Most people (I think) agree that csh is better as an _interactive_
- shell than sh. The tchrist article specifically focuses on csh
- _programming_.
-
- [...list of things csh doesn't have...]
- Possibilities that could be added to csh, if anyone cared to.
- ...
- Okay, add a read statement to csh.
-
- Isn't this what Tom is trying to say? Of course new features can be
- added, but then the thing will cease to be csh; it'll be a nonstandard
- derivative (for a while at least). People could add history, aliases
- and job control to sh, too.
-
- I must say that it would be nice if Bourne shell could do @ i++,
- instead of $i=`expr $i + 1`.
-
- You're not cool enough to quote Doug Gwyn.
-
- Oooohhh...
-
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Howard C. Huang * The MITRE Corporation * hhuang@mitre.org
-
- Things are easier in grad school. Just call everyone with a tie "Professor,"
- and anyone with a beard "Dean." When in doubt, just say "Doctor."
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-