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+ David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>:

> Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:
>
>> Do you know why you are so prejudiced against csh?
>
> Because it sucks for scripting and does not offer any advantage for
> interactive work when compared to modern Bourne shells?

Time to blow the dust off an old classic?

  http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/

-- 
* Harald Hanche-Olsen     <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
- It is undesirable to believe a proposition
  when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
  -- Bertrand Russell