[16898] in Athena Bugs
Re: early-release, bindkey
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Wed Jun 16 11:13:37 1999
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 11:13:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: "Aaron M. Ucko" <amu@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Alicia Allen <iggy@MIT.EDU>, John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU
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Since the csh-scripting discussion is being cc'd to the bug list, I'm
jumping in without remorse and compounding a felony :)
> > >Didn't your [authority figure] tell you not to use csh scripts? ;-)
> > >
> > nope.
> > out of curiosity, and the desire to have abetter clue about athena&UNIX,
> > why not?
>
> There's a file called csh.whynot that explains why csh is a poor
> scripting language. You can find a copy in my home directory.
If you'd like, Alicia, come to e40-347 and borrow my book UNIX POWER
TOOLS, which reprints the famous Tom Christiansen essay "C Shell
Programming Considered Harmful." (It may be the same thing jhawk has, I
haven't seen his.)
The unix gods at O'Reilly who compiled this book felt strongly enough
about this that they devote a whole chapter (albeit brief) to nothing but
this subject.
-Todd
