Link: Csh Programming Considered Harmful
Tom Christiansen's Csh Programming Considered Harmful used to be posted
to various Usenet comp.unix groups, nigh on ten years ago or so. I
consider it sort of a pity that it isn't still being posted, because
every so often someone still decides that writing shell scripts in csh
would be a good idea.
Some of the problems Christiansen identified have since been fixed by
modern versions of tcsh
, but not all of them.
(The article can also serve as an interesting catalog of sh
programming tricks.)
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