From: Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com   
      
   On Tue, 12 Dec 2023 22:34:35 -0500, Mike Small wrote:   
   > Do any of you like the rc shell (Tom Duff's shell / the plan 9 shell)?   
   > For scripting, I've come to prefer it to the Bourne shell and its modern   
   > "expansion sets."   
      
   No, before this post I hadn't even heard about rc shell. The closest   
   thing that I have used is probably tcsh which also is a more C-like shell   
   than sh or bash, but its syntax seems to differ slightly from rc shell.   
   However, later, mostly I prefer bash shell scripting before tcsh even   
   though I use tcsh for interactive shell.   
      
   > But I'm curious if there are rc enthusiasts here, what you prefer?   
      
   When tcsh or bash are not enough for my scripting purposes I usually   
   instead write the script in php which can be used as a powerful scripting   
   language with built in support for things like sql, snmp and ldap.   
      
   > There does not seem to be a slackbuild for it unless I've missed it.   
      
   If you really like rc and would like to see a more widespread use among   
   Slackware users a contribution of a SlackBuild script to slackbuilds.org   
   might be a good start.   
      
   regards Henrik   
      
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