From: Gary Capell gary@cs.su.OZ.AU
Subject: porting unix progs to plan9
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1993 23:23:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19930706032311.5PkyTHdAwPNa6Zp4hiMqFrkfJOyTRaPKCu3y8D_1XLw@z> (raw)
1. I'm afraid of losing the nice feel of a small number of good tools if
*nix progs are ported just for the purpose of having familiar old
faithfuls.
2. For those areas where there IS a definite hole (e.g. news reader),
writing new applications seems a much better idea, to take advantage of
the nicer programming environment. For example I've put together the
skeleton of a calendar management file system, and dhog here is working
on a news reading file system, which will hopefully fit in nicely with
other plan 9 tools, especially help(1).
P.S. Help(1) is way cool. Try it for an hour and you won't go back. And
I hear rumours of a successor called acme which should be even better.
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