Re: [9fans] Advances in software technology

[Aharon Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>]

In article <6ffc831da45dcc04aa2839da7c75d259@davidashen.net>,
 <9fans@cse.psu.edu> wrote:
>> I note from the article on the USACO programming contest in the
>> current Usenix magazine that one of chaps has written an implementation
>> of vi (the editor, not the mips simulator) in perl.
>> 
>> This is great news, as vi can now much more easily be ported
>> to other operating systems.
>
>A much more usable solution would be to just implement BSD C library,
>termcap, system calls and a C compiler in perl, so that anyone who needs 
>vi could just run perl and compile and run BSD vi on top of it. nvi is a good
>program, after all.

Somebody was working on a rewrite of all the posix shell level tools in
perl, "in order to make them more portable" or some such drivel.  The
people in this world with too much time on their hands should be using it
on something really useful, instead!
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