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On Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:41:00 +0000, Hibou wrote:

> Oh, I was and remain fond of C, especially for twiddling data at a low
> level and interacting with Unix and its derivatives - yea, even unto
> favouring the C-shell. (I never really took to the syntax of Bourne or
> Bourne Again.)

I used tcsh until it became apparent all Linux distros were using bash. I 
converted a few of my aliases to the function format required by bash for 
my .bashrc but never did any scripting for the shell. I could accomplish 
what I wanted to do with Python.