Re: My "Stop Using (and Teaching) C-Shell and Tcsh" Page

On Sat, Oct 06, 2007, Shlomi Fish wrote about "[hackers-il] My "Stop Using (and Teaching) C-Shell and Tcsh" Page":
> We discussed the C-shell in these mailing lists before. A few days ago I 
> decided to set up the definitive anti-C-shell page, based on an email I 
> wrote, so I did:
> 
> http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/anti/csh/
> 
> Comments are welcome.

Good summary of CSH's problems and good links.

Another reason you missed  is this: if you have to learn just *one* shell,
make sure you learn bourne shell, not csh. Because the bourne shell is the
"standard shell" on Unix, and it - not csh - is the one that you'll always
be sure to find on any sort of Unix machine, and it - not csh - is the
language you'll find when you read other people's scripts on Unix machines
(makefiles, init scripts, rpm scripts, and so on).

What always baffles me is why people learn or teach csh at all. With all its
downsides, bugs and problems (whether there are 5, 10 or 50 of those), what
exactly are its positive sides?

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