home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!chinacat!balkan!ccird!felixg
- From: felixg@coop.com (Felix Gallo)
- Subject: Re: The Revenge of CSH
- Organization: Cooperative Computing, Inc.
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:32:29 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.203229.14579@coop.com>
- Followup-To: comp.unix.questions
- References: <Bzz748.GDK@csn.org> <1hpso1INNp6q@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Sender: felixg@coop.com (Felix Gallo)
- Lines: 21
-
- chet@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey) writes:
-
- >Oh, I don't know. Tom's a pretty cool guy. I prefer to quote Chris
- >Torek, myself:
-
- >``The C shell is an object lesson in how not to write programs.''
-
- While we're quoting, let's throw in my favorite quote from
- the Santa Cruz Operation's man page for their version of csh
- under sysv 3.2.4:
- [at the very end of the man page]
-
- "The || and && operators are reversed in this implementation."
-
- spam% sleep 5 || echo oh my god it's full of stars
- oh my god it's full of stars
- spam% cat /vmunix | crypt | banner | sort | mail sco-support@sco.com
-
- >Chet
-
-
-