Even more OT: looking for csh programming material

2002-07-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 05:57, Dave Ihnat wrote: > > *Sigh*. I've been trying to drive a stake through the heart of > that particular vampire for almost 20 years. And now you're > going to train a whole new bunch of csh-ers. Thanks a lot. > (SmileyifIdidsmileyswhichIdon't). Why not? One of the

Re: OT: looking for csh programming material

2002-07-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Harry Putnam wrote: > The best intro and brief exposition of csh, riddled with examples, > that I've seen is in the book Unix Shells by Example > (Ellie Quigley) sadly, the only other book i've seen by quigley, "perl by example" i believe it was, was riddled with errors as w

Re: OT: looking for csh programming material

2002-07-23 Thread Harry Putnam
"Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i've got the job of giving a 1/2 to 3/4 day tutorial on how > to do basic programming in the (gasp! hack!) c shell. > > are there any decent online tutorials (ideally, one i could > just run off and bind), so i don't have to slap together one o

Re: OT: looking for csh programming material

2002-07-23 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 06:21:33AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i've got the job of giving a 1/2 to 3/4 day tutorial on how > to do basic programming in the (gasp! hack!) c shell. *Sigh*. I've been trying to drive a stake through the heart of that particular vampire for almost 20 years. A

Re: OT: looking for csh programming material

2002-07-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Paul Branston wrote: > Tom Christiansen posted some persuasive reason why csh should > not be used for this under the title "C Shell Programming Considered > Harmful." This is published in the O'Reilly Unix Power Tools book > in chapter 47. > > Paul. and as painfully famili

Re: OT: looking for csh programming material

2002-07-23 Thread Paul Branston
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 06:21:33AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i've got the job of giving a 1/2 to 3/4 day tutorial on how > to do basic programming in the (gasp! hack!) c shell. > > are there any decent online tutorials (ideally, one i could > just run off and bind), so i don't have

OT: looking for csh programming material

2002-07-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i've got the job of giving a 1/2 to 3/4 day tutorial on how to do basic programming in the (gasp! hack!) c shell. are there any decent online tutorials (ideally, one i could just run off and bind), so i don't have to slap together one of my own? obviously, with less than a day to teach, it