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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
- Path: sparky!uunet!pacdata!jimh
- From: jimh@pacdata.uucp (Jim Harkins)
- Subject: tcsh - too many features?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.210045.3136@pacdata.uucp>
- Organization: Pacific Data Products
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 21:00:45 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- Never saw the original article but this has been quoted several times.
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- ! If both these questions have solutions already it only shows that tcsh
- ! has too many features. I can't remember them so I don't use them.
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- 'scuse me? I've probably forgotten more about the shell than I know. Hell,
- I don't even remember what that little knob on the side of my toaster is for.
- I like my toast the way it comes out so why mess with it, although I'm sure
- some pop-tart junkie is really happy the knob is there.
-
- Having lots of features is what I consider a 'rich' environment. This is
- opposed to a 'gui' environment, of which it's been said 'Gui's make simple
- things easier, and hard things impossible.' If you're any good at all then
- someday you'll be glad some nameless soul added that obscure feature to
- tcsh. And if you're smart you'll put that obscure feature into your .login
- or .cshrc so you don't have to re-learn it.
-
- Excuse the Gui slam but a few months ago I spent a week on a Mac. It would
- have been a day had anybody known how to get straight to the hardware a-la
- Dos's mode command or the SunOS /etc/remote file. What I needed was
- non-standard, thus Apple decided I didn't need to do it. I've also had bad
- experiences with CASE tools, where the vendor got so wrapped up in his mouse
- he forgot that all I wanted to do was get my job done.
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- Excuse the Mac slam, but that wasn't a pleasant experience :-(
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- If you think tcsh has too many features then forget about ever learning perl.
-
- jim
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