Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ukc!root44!pdl From: pdl@root44.UUCP (Dave Lukes) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: C Shell Message-ID: <4096@root44.UUCP> Date: Mon, 18-Jul-83 07:05:49 EDT Article-I.D.: root44.4096 Posted: Mon Jul 18 07:05:49 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 19-Jul-83 09:01:18 EDT References: mit-eddi.429 Lines: 19 Yawn, yawn: Job control is another redundant feature.... **** FLAME ON ****: Job control is a way of handling multiple processes in multiple `contexts' (i.e. foreground, background, etc.). What's wrong with a multi-window terminal for doing exactly the same thing (i.e. leaving things running in one window, the switching to another one to do something else etc. etc. etc.) Again, job control is a BAD way to do the job (just like aliases and history...). Also, my other objection to job control is that it has massive and painful hooks into the kernel, all to implement a specific end user feature. This seems wrong to me. (What happened to generality, and keeping the kernel small ?) **** FLAME OFF ****. Dave Lukes, Fid. Def. (...!vax135!ukc!root44!pdl)