[TUHS] Origins of shell prompt suffixes % $ > #

[ron at ronnatalie.com]

> I was told, but cannot recall by whom, that the csh decision to use % when the bourne shell had $ was to make it clear which syntax was expected by the user. tcsh inherited from csh. Bash/Zsh/Ash/Ksh inherited from sh.

I don't buy it.   CSH predates the Bourne shell by a year.   I suspect it used % because the V6 shell it replaced used %.