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Re: [LUG] Nebie Question on Scripts

 

On 04/07/07, Tom Potts <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 July 2007 23:59, Simon Waters wrote:
> > Peter Walker wrote:
> > > Try
> > >
> > > setenv PATH /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.00/jre/bin/
> >
> > I prefer the Larry Wall quote to csh answers, rather than the actual
> > answer.
> >
> > "...this does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather
> > dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head."
> >
> >     * Usenet article <1992Aug6.221512.5963@xxxxxxxxxxx> (1992)
> >
> > So Tom C did....
> >
> > Anyone would think those Perl folk have it in for Csh....
> Of course they do - the whole point of having a different language is to try
> and be individual and cliquey!
> The idea behind Csh (IIRC) was to be able to script in the same language as
> you coded - and as someone who codes in too many languages and spends half
> his life swearing the codes correct and the interpreter/compiler is wrong I
> can see why that 'would be a good thing'.
> As half my work is in the browser these days the nearest I can come to this
> ideal is using javascript and mono, or possibly clisp and a javascript lisp
> interpreter but there are limits.
> Tom te tom te tom
> >
> > http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/
> >
> > It is rather dated - from the days when Bourne was the common Unix
> > shell, and the Korn shell was arriving - but hey I ain't never seen a
> > pretty Csh, and I don't think I've seen any on Linux. So perhaps there
> > is progress in Unix like operating systems - be it ever so slow.
>

probably one the main reasons for perl

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