Re: plan9 building?

[Donn Cave <donn@u.washington.edu>]

Quoth Steve Kilbane <steve@whitecrow.demon.co.uk>:
...
| well, i wasn't entirely serious, but in most cases, the plan 9
| approach is to say, "what would work well as a file server, and what
| would be pushing things too far?" es's rewriting reminds me a little of
| Tcl's embedded capabilities, but rather than embedding es into an application,
| it could mount it. this would allow processes across the system to share
| a common shell state, rather than just an environment. is this a good thing?
| no idea. But it would also allow the syntax to be entirely separate from the
| shell, even going as far as having a tk front end instead.

Like, job control but not tied to the terminal driver?  Stop a job
from one window, come back later and resume it in another?  Sounds
kind of interesting to me.

	Donn Cave, donn@u.washington.edu