From: "rob pike, esq." <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] no job control; thank you!
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 23:49:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fdab5cc100bd4c56192314ab57f0973a@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
> I'd like to thank all the Plan 9 developers for keeping job control
> out of Plan 9. I've just had a close encounter with job control after
> many years away from Unix (hey, somebody has to clean the sewers), and
> the complexity and botched implementation(s) of that bad idea are
> mind-boggling. I finally gave up.
I never liked job control; it seemed like the wrong answer to the
problem of managing multiple processes. When I first saw windows,
even though the system they were on didn't have processes, a light
bulb went off in my head: *that* is the right answer. And it was.
-rob
next reply other threads:[~2002-07-18 3:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-18 3:49 rob pike, esq. [this message]
2002-07-18 14:21 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
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2002-07-30 16:18 David Gordon Hogan
2002-07-30 5:11 Russ Cox
2002-07-18 15:02 rog
2002-07-18 14:13 ` Sam
2002-07-18 16:19 ` matt
2002-07-18 16:34 ` Lucio De Re
2002-07-18 21:37 ` Chris Hollis-Locke
2002-07-18 14:53 forsyth
2002-07-18 3:23 Geoff Collyer
2002-07-18 18:30 ` Chet Ramey
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