From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <32d987d50811201413m399f320v7338b714fe32f136@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:13:00 -0200 From: "Federico G. Benavento" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <4f34febc0811201247n18a3c5eajd7f25462db5ed5a7@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <881467ce0811200915odb0a042xb1c3aa2f292c2677@mail.gmail.com> <49259D0E.9050700@proweb.co.uk> <4f34febc0811201247n18a3c5eajd7f25462db5ed5a7@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] What about Haskell? [was: How can I use alef?] Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4cc8712e-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 yes, it's in nils contrib (noselasd) On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 6:47 PM, John Barham 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