[Nix-dev] Let's switch the default shell in Nixpks / NixOS to sch

John Wiegley johnw at newartisans.com
Thu Apr 2 03:27:42 CEST 2015


>>>>> John Wiegley <johnw at newartisans.com> writes:

>>>>> Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to> writes:
>> This makes me wonder whether maybe we should switch all shell scripting in
>> Nixpkgs to "csh"? Wouldn't that solve a lot of problems? I've heard experts
>> say that "csh" is generally considered superior for scripting tasks because
>> of its more intuitive syntax.

> I really dislike csh's syntax, and that of tcsh, and having to learn it in
> order to write scripts for Nix would be undesirable to say the least.

Wait, I just remembered the date. :)

John


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