Larry Wall Quotes on Shell
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...this does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
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They can always run stderr through uniq. :-)
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OOPS! You naughty creature! You didn't run Configure with sh! I will attempt to remedy the situation by running sh for you...
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Your csh still thinks true is false. Write to your vendor today and tell them that next year Configure ought to 'rm /bin/csh' unless they fix their blasted shell. :-)
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And C was good at something I like to call manipulexity, that is the manipulation of complex things. While shell was good at something else which I call whipuptitude, the aptitude for whipping things up.
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: I've heard that there is a shell (bourne or csh) to perl filter, does : anyone know of this or where I can get it? Yeah, you filter it through Tom Christiansen. :-)