[TUHS] Origin year of BSD csh?
Ronald Natalie
ron at ronnatalie.com
Mon Jun 27 04:32:23 AEST 2016
I detested the CSH syntax. In order to beat back the CSH proponents at BRL, I added JOB control to the SV (and later SVR2) Bourne Shell. Then they beat on me for not having command like editing in (a la TCSH), so I added that. This shell went out as /bin/sh in the Doug Gwyn SV-on-BSD release so every once and a while over the years I trip across a “Ron shell” usually people who were running Mach-derived things that ran my shell as /bin/sh.
> On Jun 26, 2016, at 1:14 PM, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 09:30:39AM -0700, Mary Ann Horton wrote:
>> I brought csh with me to Bell Labs in the summer of 1979. The folks at Bell
>> Labs recoiled in horror: they had just gone through a painful conversion
>> from the Mashey shell to the Bourne shell
>
> I used csh for a while before ksh became available. It was an improvement
> over the Bourne shell, IMO, but once ksh came out I went back to Bourne
> shell syntax. And now bash is pretty nice.
>
> --lm
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