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From: Rick Hohensee <humbubba@smarty.smart.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] partial-Plan9ification question
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
In-Reply-To: <20010713180831.4A259199E7@mail.cse.psu.edu> from "brucee@plan9.bell-labs.com" at Jul 13, 2001 02:08:28 PM
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Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 14:37:00 -0400
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>
> please consider no ifdefs ever.  and assembly language
> only in vital library functions.  sure we need
> /sys/src/libc/arm/memmove.s but there is
> /sys/src/libc/port/memmove.c
>
> your code may then be understandable and maintainable.
>
> #ifndef throw_up
> #define throw_up(p)	chunder(p)
> #endif
>
> is really rather silly but prevalent.
>
> brucee
>

The existing unix I'm talking about (Linux 1.2.13) won't turn into Plan 9
style source overnight. I agree though. One thing I think I can get from
here is the only-include-me-once condoms, which I have some scripting done
for. That used to annoy the fire out of me in Amiga JForth. FORTH, fer
cryin out loud. (JForth was quite elegant mostly, BTW. "A
once-in-a-paradigm thing").

Rick Hohensee
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