Re: [9fans] Stack initialisation

[Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>]

On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 06:32:13PM +0200, Boyd Roberts wrote:
> 
> i'd chuck my hand in with limbo.  my first limbo module:
> 
>     http://www.planete.net/~boyd/code/pop.bundle
> 
> [a pop3 client] took about 3 hours to write, with a few beers
> and a bit of coaching from brucee.
> 
Yes, Limbo is surprisingly easy.  And effective.  Took me a long time
to figure out how to time out on a read(), though (the CD-ROM released
version didn't include the timed read function).

> i was amazed.  garbage collected fd's -- wow...
> 
That's a runtime feature.  No reason why the gems in Limbo cannot be
adopted elsewhere.  And Limbo is at its best within the Inferno system.
I would be perfectly happy with a port to Plan 9, but I don't hear
many offers.  Plus, Charles is hopefully going to make a
(comfortable?) living out of Inferno and Limbo (hm, where's Paradiso?)
and we may want to help him by keeping Inferno and Plan 9 distinct.

> the original, written in C, took several days (excluding a night
> in a pub in york designing it and thinking up a method to minimise
> the password winding up in a core dump -- taunton dry blackthorn
> cider was required).
> 
No point in asking if the Alef version would have been any easier?  No
matter, let's get the most out of the tools we have, and try to keep
religious wars right out of the picture.

Plus, there are graphics to do, that's a hell of a lot of work, if I'm
not mistaken.

++L