Problem with any of os.system(), os.fork() & os.execp() and os.spawn()

[Donn Cave]

Quoth andy47 at halfcooked.com (Andy Todd):
...
| And if Donn and Martin haven't convinced you that writing scripts in any 
| variant of the c shell is bad, have a look at;
|
| http://www.notelrac.com/essays.dir/softeng.dir/csh_harmful.html

Bah, a half-hearted attempt.  Someone who really cared could put
together a much larger list of botches, including things that tcsh
has to inherit.

He mentions Plan 9 "rc", and it is indeed a fine shell language,
pure, austere elegance.  See http://www.star.le.ac.uk/~tjg/rc/
for the UNIX port, a tiny shell that you can't expect to get in
any UNIX vendor's distribution, but it's portable - and what Python
programmer expects the interpreter to already be there?

	Donn Cave, donn at u.washington.edu