In message <199903162354.PAA28915@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>, Jason Thorpe writes:
>Eh ... so, what's stopping us from using one of System V's better features
>(i.e. Bourne Shell) more... face it, csh sucks.

Familiarity.

Also, while I'm not a big csh fan, the history mechanism is wonderfully terse
when what you want to do happens to be something in its range of features.

Also, if people don't learn csh, you lose great trivia questions.  For
example:

Name {N} ways to get csh to say "!!: Command not found."

-s