From: tlaronde@polynum.com
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] nice quote
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 14:11:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090905121128.GA631@polynum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fe41879c0909050422s77247280y4fcd7d89a621b8b4@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 07:22:37AM -0400, Akshat Kumar wrote:
> "Programming languages are just tools, after all."
>
> Considering that Plan 9 has only two inherent languages,
> and its users often push for work to be done in only those,
> what is the Plan 9 perspective of languages and tools in
> relation to each other?
I don't know for "the Plan 9 perspective" and have no authority to talk
"for Plan 9", but since almost all interpreters or compilers are written
in C, whether completely or the bootstapping procedure (a C core that is
able to interpret a subset of the language to generate a binary for the
non optimized version of a complete compiler etc.), there are all the
tools as long as there is a C compiler for the machine.
The remaining is, IMHO, user stuff: one has all tools needed to
customize.
The only "lack" in C is perhaps defined full control for
arithmetic/calculus. That's probably why FORTRAN is still here and has
still its strength in this area.
Just my 2 centimes,
--
Thierry Laronde (Alceste) <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com>
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2009-09-03 9:53 ` Greg Comeau
2009-09-03 11:24 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2009-09-03 12:01 ` tlaronde
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2009-09-03 14:03 ` Greg Comeau
2009-09-03 15:13 ` Jason Catena
2009-09-04 9:04 ` Greg Comeau
2009-09-03 14:02 ` Greg Comeau
2009-09-03 14:57 ` Robert Raschke
2009-09-04 9:04 ` Greg Comeau
2009-09-03 17:40 ` Brian L. Stuart
2009-09-04 9:03 ` Greg Comeau
2009-09-04 17:47 ` Brian L. Stuart
2009-09-04 18:01 ` Jack Norton
2009-09-04 20:18 ` Eris Discordia
2009-09-04 21:36 ` Daniel Lyons
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2009-09-09 16:51 ` Jack Norton
2009-09-09 16:07 ` erik quanstrom
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2009-09-09 16:11 ` David Leimbach
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2009-09-09 17:29 ` Iruata Souza
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2009-09-10 15:58 ` hiro
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2009-09-05 14:36 ` John Floren
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2009-09-05 19:30 ` Daniel Lyons
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2009-09-06 0:37 ` Eris Discordia
2009-09-06 0:56 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-06 16:51 ` Eris Discordia
2009-09-06 17:32 ` tlaronde
2009-09-06 4:23 ` J.R. Mauro
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2009-09-06 18:03 ` Rob Pike
2009-09-06 19:26 ` Eris Discordia
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2009-09-07 8:54 ` Paul Donnelly
2009-09-07 9:04 ` Daniel Lyons
2009-09-07 9:05 ` Vinu Rajashekhar
2009-09-07 9:05 ` Greg Comeau
2009-09-07 9:49 ` Daniel Lyons
2009-09-07 11:34 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-07 16:00 ` Greg Comeau
2009-09-07 19:23 ` Eris Discordia
2009-09-09 8:29 ` Greg Comeau
2009-09-09 8:35 ` Paul Donnelly
2009-09-03 19:38 ` tlaronde
2009-09-03 21:55 ` Daniel Lyons
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2009-09-07 8:54 ` Greg Comeau
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