How wrong is MS-DOS? (or: Tools Tools Tools)

[Sean Eric Fagan]

In article <SPOT.91Jan13002434 at WOOZLE.GRAPHICS.CS.CMU.EDU> spot at CS.CMU.EDU (Scott Draves) writes:
>If you are saying you would never write production code in csh using
>all those utilities, then I agree.  And so will (nearly?) everyone
>else.  That would be slow and gross.

I wouldn't be so quick with that, if I were you.  Large portions of C News
(most of it?) are written as shell scripts, and C News is considerably
faster than B News (where larger portions were written in C).

Use the right tool for the job; with UNIX, there's a good chance that "the
right tool" will involve a combination of an already supplied program, and
some of your own code (be it ksh, sh, csh, C, f77, whatever).

Also, this is no longer an architectural issue; comp.unix.misc is where it
belongs.

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