From: Jacob Todd <jaketodd422@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] mishandling empty lists - let's fix it
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 12:01:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091006120146.GA3758@zoidberg.hsd1.mi.comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5d375e920910052359q74f7d070v677ba9fae4d01b02@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 08:59:32AM +0200, Uriel wrote:
> I'm sure the people in charge of writing the next version of the PoSix
> standard will be very happy to adopt your proposal!
>
> That is, if they have not independently 'discovered' this fantastic
> solution to this horrible 'problem' already on their own.
>
> Of course, they could also move with the times, and adopt an XML
> format for command arguments which would be much more extensible and
> Web 2.0 compliant.
>
> That way all commands could share the same dynamically linked parser,
> and one could write scripts with their favorite XML-editor!
>
> uriel
>
Breaking news: bash now uses mysql to store your history, environmental
variables, et cetera.
Don't forget to tune in at 7 to discuss Emacs newest feature,a Virtual Machine
that runs in the editor.
--
Jake Todd
// If it isn't broke, tweak it!
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Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-03 16:03 Sam Watkins
2009-10-03 17:01 ` Rob Pike
2009-10-03 18:31 ` Sam Watkins
2009-10-03 18:56 ` Rob Pike
2009-10-03 19:05 ` blstuart
2009-10-03 19:18 ` hiro
2009-10-03 20:31 ` Steve Simon
2009-10-05 16:08 ` John Stalker
2009-10-05 16:24 ` erik quanstrom
2009-10-05 17:20 ` John Stalker
2009-10-05 19:09 ` roger peppe
2009-10-03 18:46 ` Bakul Shah
2009-10-03 19:11 ` Sam Watkins
2009-10-04 4:12 ` lucio
2009-10-04 7:17 ` Sam Watkins
2009-10-04 9:18 ` lucio
2009-10-05 6:20 ` Sam Watkins
2009-10-05 6:53 ` Federico G. Benavento
2009-10-04 10:46 ` Richard Miller
2009-10-06 6:59 ` Uriel
2009-10-06 12:01 ` Jacob Todd [this message]
2009-10-06 16:35 ` [9fans] *Suspect* " W B Hacker
2009-10-04 10:59 ` [9fans] " sqweek
2009-10-05 5:54 ` Sam Watkins
2009-10-05 11:23 ` matt
2009-10-04 10:18 ` Charles Forsyth
2009-10-04 10:26 ` lucio
[not found] <<646955677faa922172207300b93ff6ea@hamnavoe.com>
2009-10-04 18:39 ` erik quanstrom
[not found] <<20091005055423.GA14691@nipl.net>
2009-10-05 13:30 ` erik quanstrom
2009-10-05 16:13 ` Russ Cox
2009-10-05 19:24 ` Sam Watkins
2009-10-05 19:31 ` erik quanstrom
2009-10-05 21:04 ` John Stalker
2009-10-05 22:13 ` Jason Catena
2009-10-06 10:10 ` lucio
2009-10-06 2:22 ` ron minnich
2009-10-06 4:37 ` erik quanstrom
2009-10-06 4:50 ` ron minnich
2009-10-06 6:40 ` John Stalker
2009-10-06 17:45 ` Brian L. Stuart
2009-10-06 18:00 ` John Stalker
2009-10-06 18:27 ` ron minnich
2009-10-07 8:30 ` John Stalker
2009-10-07 11:05 ` roger peppe
2009-10-06 8:40 ` matt
2009-10-06 16:50 ` John Stalker
2009-10-06 17:15 ` Jason Catena
2009-10-06 17:50 ` Tim Newsham
2009-10-06 19:27 ` John Stalker
2009-10-06 20:10 ` Jason Catena
2009-10-05 21:35 ` Russ Cox
[not found] <<200910060740.aa94573@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
2009-10-06 12:59 ` erik quanstrom
[not found] <<200910070930.aa64725@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
2009-10-07 12:14 ` erik quanstrom
2009-10-07 13:14 ` John Stalker
[not found] <<200910071414.aa02318@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
2009-10-07 13:36 ` erik quanstrom
2009-10-07 14:02 ` W B Hacker
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