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From: jbrock@panix.com (John Brock)
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Subject: Re: Shell Central
Date: 30 Aug 2002 18:26:26 -0400
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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