From: "Federico G. Benavento" <benavento@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] What about Haskell? [was: How can I use alef?]
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:13:00 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <32d987d50811201413m399f320v7338b714fe32f136@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4f34febc0811201247n18a3c5eajd7f25462db5ed5a7@mail.gmail.com>
yes, it's in nils contrib (noselasd)
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 6:47 PM, John Barham <jbarham@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've often though quite a few languages could be shrunken down fit with
>> Plan9's diretory/files system. Python, for instance, would need much less
>> code for networking etc.
>>
>> So a language that specialsed in I/O primitives would be a good choice. That
>> doesn't sound like Haskell to me. I/O is about changing state. That said,
>> there must be a way to make it fit :)
>>
>> Of the few I have used, I think python is the best hybrid that fits.
>
> Lua (http://www.lua.org/) is also a good choice as its standard
> library is so minimalist that porting it is trivial. IIRC there is an
> APE port somewhere in contrib.
>
> John
>
>
--
Federico G. Benavento
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-20 22:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-20 16:56 Giacomo Tesio
2008-11-20 17:15 ` Roman Zhukov
2008-11-20 17:23 ` matt
2008-11-20 19:42 ` Iruata Souza
2008-11-21 0:09 ` David Leimbach
2008-11-21 4:11 ` Fernan Bolando
2008-11-21 4:18 ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-11-21 5:34 ` David Leimbach
2008-11-21 5:33 ` David Leimbach
2008-11-20 20:47 ` John Barham
2008-11-20 22:13 ` Federico G. Benavento [this message]
2008-11-20 23:46 ` Iruata Souza
2008-11-20 18:41 ` Gorka Guardiola
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