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Subject: Re: [9fans] Serving 9p in python - anyone started that?
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 03:53:56 -0500
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> Just curiosity. Why did you take that way instead of trying to get
> a toolset for doing rc 9p servers? I mean, IMHO, rc is the
> preferred way of scripting. I've some times wanted to
> be able to plug rc scripts into a generic 9p server skeleton,
> and alto to write an rc script that uses other tools to speak 9p.

i don't know about john, but i did my 9p python code because
i was sick of c getting in my way while trying to write the 9p
tester.  the c version was all details i didn't care about.  the
python version is nice and simple.  i would like to be able to
use rc instead, but it wasn't clear how to do that.  rc is a nice
shell but it's not the best programming environment.
my example is the install scripts.  they push the limit of
what you really want to be doing in an rc script.  (transitive
closure, for instance.)