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Geoff Collyer has made the 9th edition shell available:

	http://www.collyer.net/who/geoff/v9sh.tar

Arnold

Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote:

> Found this tweetstream, here folded together, when looking for something
> else (now lost) in my twitter archive:
>
> ==========
>
> Things I miss from the v8 shell.
>
> 1) All shell output was valid shell input.
>
> 2) Typing dir/cmd would find the command $PATH/dir/cmd. Subdirectories of
> your bin, in other words.
>
> 3) Functions were exportable. For one brief shining POSIX meeting, that was
> true in POSIX too but then...
>
> 4) The implementation was lovely and easy to understand. (No, it wasn't
> shalgol. Bourne fixed that for us.)
>
> 5) That I could learn things from it, like how to write a recursive descent
> parser.*
>
> 6) It ran in cooked mode.
>
> As expected, all that work making it a great shell is lost to history.
> https://t.co/IzApAUSmzN is silent. Well, the code is released now.
>
>
> ==========
>
> -rob
>
> * elegantly.