Seems an odd thing to drift into the list as it is quite mature software now, I berated Russ for doing it as I felt it diluted Plan9, I'm glad I was wrong and h

Seems an odd thing to drift into the list as it is quite mature software now, I berated Russ for doing it as I felt it diluted Plan9, I'm glad I was wrong and he didn't listen. Once you learn rc shell you might find other shells to be bloated, verbose and whitespace fussy. The only complaint I've ever heard was job control, well that's because job contgrol is the kernel's job and it seems that when implementing /proc someone forgot the ctl file. On Plan9 one does echo stop|start > /proc/$pidn/ctl to stop or start a job