Subject: Re: BSD == NIH
To: Ian Dall <Ian.Dall@dsto.defence.gov.au>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/18/1999 12:46:29
On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 04:31:47PM +1030, Ian Dall wrote:
> Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU> writes:
>
> > In message <199903161706.MAA01048@nephthys.grey17.org>Greg Hudson writes
>
> >> I'm rather surprised to see so many people depending the abortion that
> >> is csh. I guess people really like !! and ^foo^bar or something.
>
> > Really? i'm at least as surprised to hear so many people depending on
> > the abortion that is sh. As a scripting language, it has csh beat,
> > but the UI?
>
> If you want to compare Edition 7 csh and sh then I agree that csh
> is better, but we are not. Most csh users don't seem to understand that
> sh has moved on since then.
Neither do certain large commercial UNIX vendors. Oh, excuse me. I mean,
I find Solaris/SVR4 /bin/sh *so* nice to use as an interactive shell...
(and we're trying to _emulate_ this? feh.)