Or have a native Limbo compiler; I've been itching for that for some time,
but I've much else on my hands. One day when free...


On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 9:28 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>wrote:

> >
> > I seem to remember Mjl, the author if the inferno ircfs, wrote an
> > ircfs for Plan 9 ages ago. Still, seems like a total waste of time
> > when you have a perfectly fine one in limbo, which is a much more
> > convenient language for building such a thing anyway.
> >
>
> the op said he was running plan 9.  if we take that as a
> reasonable thing to be doing, then it makes sense to
> want to run native plan 9 programs for a number of
> reasons.  first, if the op doesn't have any inferno running
> already, he doesn't need to install and figure out how
> to run it.  not that this is hard, but it is important to
> admit this is an extra step.  once installed, plan 9 tools
> like ps and  kill won't work on inferno procs.  so one
> need to either deal with the disconnect or write some
> scripts to make it less evident.
>
> none of this is specific to plan 9 and inferno.  the same
> could be said using bsd and 9vx or linux and a browser
> running browser procs.
>
> so, since an ircfs is not a huge project, i don't think
> it's unreasonable to write one for plan 9.  it's what i
> would do.
>
> - erik
>
>


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