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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Sun,  1 Feb 2009 01:44:09 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Pegasus 2.6 is released
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> However, inasmuch as you had to build a custom
> interpreter to add features for Pegasus this exposes a weakness of
> Plan 9 in that it can't dynamically load libraries at run-time which
> is the normal extension mechanism for scripting languages on other
> platforms.

pegasus is written in c, not a scripting language.
i believe lua is used as one possible language for
cgi.

the argument that if the normal extension
mechanism for scripting languages is x,
thereforenot having x is a weakness seems
a version of argumentum ad populum.

doesn't dynamic loading seem at odds with the
tools approach?  the more complex the interface,
the less general the tool.

- erik