Re: tcsh as csh default

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

> The only time it ever made any sense at all to use csh for scripts
> was in the brief period between [when csh appeared] and [when sh
> appeared].

Speaking as someone whose preferred interactive shell is a csh
derivative, I maintain exactly two csh-family scripts: my .cshrc and my
.login.

Except for those two (which kinda have to be csh(ish) scripts), I use
sh for scripting.  At least for my values of "better", sh is a
significantly better _programming_ language, for all that csh has
various things that make it a better _interactive_ language.

I won't weigh in on either side of "replace csh with tcsh".  I don't
like tcsh much, but the reasons amount to "it's not what my fingers are
used to"; I like stock csh even less, because it differs even more from
what my fingers are used to.

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