I do not mean to feed any trolls with this one, but I need to know how people what some of this addressed in the future.
I've been catching a little flack off and on about the Plan 9's naming convention of adding a '9' in front of program names. I've also noticed that using emulators, on the linux side, prefixing a 9 breaks history utilization functionality in most of the shells I use. For immediate discussion, the 9vx executable is part of the vx32 source. Is it more reasonable in this case to name the executive vx32 instead of 9vx since it is a plan 9 emulator for linux? As a note, the flack I've been getting is not just about aesthetics. When the editor of one of the journals I will likely want to publish in says "good god, do not name it that. Starting a proper name or the title of a paper with a numeral will break some search engines and cataloging utilities..." I see this a potential problem. EBo --
