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Date: Wed,  7 Jun 2006 23:16:33 +0200
From: Christoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] gcc on plan9
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Good evening.

Am Wed, 7 Jun 2006 14:07:14 -0700 schrieb "Corey" <corey_s@qwest.net>:

> _If_  one was interested in experimenting in developing an integrated 
> graphical desktop environment on plan 9, one would use what - pure C?  
> With what higher-level libraries would one use? Or would one write it
> all from scratch? 

There is a "integrated graphical desktop environment" on Plan 9, even if
you do not call it like that.

So if you really have the moral and the power to even write a line of
code for a new "integrated graphical desktop environment" on Plan 9, then
it would be done with underlying file servers, where you write "low level"
libraries, for the graphical applications, that in the end do only a
simple write() on some file - nothing else.

Sincerely,

Christoph