csh vs sh (was: fixing rm *)

[john richardson]

In article <754 at quintus.UUCP> ok at quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>In article <1457 at unisoft.UUCP> greywolf at unisoft.UUCP (The Grey Wolf) writes:
>
>>If you're going to write a csh script,
>>you're better off prefacing it with the line
>>#!/bin/csh -f
>
>Indeed you are.  You're even better off not writing Csh scripts.

and then...

>Well, everything is subject to debate.

Has there been a past discussion of writing scripts for csh vs. sh?

I see some advantages both ways:

CSH:
   2X faster (on the only benchmark we attempted)
   more builtins, less process generation (i.e., test, basename)
   :r,:e,:t suffixes to variables
   we are committed to Berkeley software so csh is portable enough
   I use csh for interactive work

SH:
   trap statement
   "| while read x" construct
	easy stderr redirection
   portable to Berkeley and ATT installations

John Richardson
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