From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <13426df10902021412x7f7440a7j5268c4db41b4dee2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 14:32:30 -0800 Message-ID: <13426df10902021432x317319d7u478f84ab97c2da73@mail.gmail.com> From: ron minnich To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Pegasus 2.6 is released Topicbox-Message-UUID: 92aea88e-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:14 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> I hate to be the one to bring this up but ... if you are providing >> some extended (e.g.) math functionality to a program with a shared >> library, people are going to be upset with you if you argue that it >> can be done with RPC. > > i thought we were talking about linking c into scripting languages. > you're not using python to actually do the calcuations, are you? > not me. But a depressingly large number of people do, nowadays. ron