csh, ksh, or sh?

Azel The Destroyer eoshough at nmsu.edu
Tue Dec 11 03:09:12 AEST 1990


>In article <3333 at ns-mx.uiowa.edu> wolf at piquet.cipl.uiowa.edu (Mike Wolf) writes:
>>We are in the process of determining what shell to use.  If I can get
>>the opinions, advice, and facts about problems with any of the
>>following shells:  csh, ksh, sh.

In article <1990Dec10.013209.29955 at cs.ucla.edu> gast at lanai.cs.ucla.edu 
(David Gast) writes:

>The ksh is far and above the best shell of these three.  If you have the
>$3K for a source license from AT&T go for it.  Make sure that you get the
>license for u of i and not just your group.

I don't know about that, as a user/programmer/semi-novice shell programmer I've
found sh to be the most lack-luster, ksh to be the most antagonistic, and
csh/tcsh to be the one I've felt the most comfortable with. Course that could 
just be a remenant of my C experience, and probably not the most objective 
statement around. 

There it is, if anyone cares.
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