From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <509071940703131045y66df7f4cm8598229f15830725@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:45:53 -0400 From: "Anthony Sorace" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] How can I shift a variable other than ? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 21d225a2-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 3/13/07, C H Forsyth wrote: > anyway, as to the archaic nature of shells. > >i also find it bizarre that you can call rc "old cruft"... > > i supposed that was a reference to the fact that the style of these shells hasn't > changed all that much since 1977. interestingly, the most different shell i've seen is Windows PowerShell (formerly MSH, aka Monad). not to say i'm particularly a fan, but the idea of an OO CLI is interesting.