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I don't get your point. I use zsh+oh-my-zsh, and I don't know what Plan 9 is, don't code in D, never used LuaTeX (esp. not in Emacs), and I don't happen to wear a monocle.

In fact I find zsh much easier for beginners and people who don't master the arcane intricacies of *nix.

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I -think- the (albiet, overly exaggerated) point is that if you only know zsh, you could potentially be at a disadvantage if you need to use someone else's terminal. Especially a remote server.

zsh is mostly a superset of bash. you will get by.

Might be the case for some, but I don't have such problems.

The problem is when you visit a customer using a commercial UNIX system with System V compatible commands like sh and vi.

I always have fun to see junior guys trying their way around such systems.

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