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.)