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Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 07:38:12 -0700
From: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] python and mercurial
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> > I've always wondered why python's port doesn't use ape...


Why not Ape? Because we need to get non-Plan 9 project thinking about
the Plan 9 universe. It's nice to start getting these native ports
working and, most important, planning to get those ports back into the
mainstream. We need to get people outside the Plan 9 world to start
thinking, e.g.,  about a world where everything is not an int (i.e.
signals). I can imagine a python expert finally getting the niceness
of notes, and then wondering why Linux doesn't do it that way. It gets
interesting when we start providing extremely powerful Python modules
that use capabilities only available in Plan 9. You want people to
start getting frustrated with old, primitive OSes :-)

thanks

ron