From: jbrock@panix.com (John Brock)
Subject: Re: Shell Central
Date: 30 Aug 2002 18:26:26 -0400
Date: 2002-08-30T18:26:26-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <akorei$8r$1@panix3.panix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: akolbm$595@web.eng.baileynm.com
In article <akolbm$595@web.eng.baileynm.com>,
Peter da Silva <peter@abbnm.com> wrote:
>In article <akoadu$l64$1@panix3.panix.com>,
>John Brock <jbrock@panix.com> wrote:
>> The language I have in mind would *feel* like a shell, and share
>> a number of conventions with the bourne shell family, even though
>> some things would be quite different.
>Have you had a look at the Plan 9 shell, "rc". It has a lot of feel
>of the bourne shell, but the scripting is quite different and a lot
>more regular.
>
>It's also designed to be used cleanly from a window system, for example
>the default prompt is a ";" so you can almost always cut-and-paste a few
>lines of commands and they'll do the right thing.
Interesting! I hadn't looked at this carefully, and I should.
It's still not exactly what I want, but it's closer than anything
I have run into so far.
They're still developing Plan 9! How nice!
--
John Brock
jbrock@panix.com
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2002-08-30 13:41 ` Shell Central Christopher Browne
2002-08-30 17:35 ` John Brock
2002-08-30 20:42 ` Peter da Silva
2002-08-30 22:26 ` John Brock [this message]
2002-09-02 0:45 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
2002-09-02 18:39 ` John W. Kennedy
2002-09-03 17:27 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
2002-09-04 2:07 ` John Brock
2002-09-04 6:21 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
2002-09-04 23:37 ` Peter Flass
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