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From: Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Date: Sun,  6 Dec 2009 19:38:02 +0100
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Subject: Re: [9fans] rc shell UNIX port repository
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I have been using es  (by Paul Haahr and Byron Rakitzis)
for quite some years on unix, although effectively I did not use
most of its more advanced features.

"Es is an extensible shell. The language was derived from the Plan 9
  shell, rc, and was influenced by functional programming languages,
  such as Scheme, and the Tcl embeddable programming language. This
  implementation is derived from Byron Rakitzis's public domain
  implementation of rc.
[...]
"
quote above comes from
http://code.google.com/p/es-shell/source/browse/trunk/README

http://hawkwind.cs.toronto.edu:8001/mlists/es.html
http://code.google.com/p/es-shell


Axel.

On Dec 6, 2009, at 8:52 , Ciprian Dorin, Craciun wrote:

>    P.S.: In my migration from Sh/Bash I've ended up deciding between
> two candidates: scsh [...] and rc [...]
>    So are there any other worthy alternatives?