From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 08:58:43 +0000 From: Aharon Robbins Message-ID: <4131b522@news.012.net.il> References: <412F0090.1000906@9fs.org>, <6ffc831da45dcc04aa2839da7c75d259@davidashen.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] Advances in software technology Topicbox-Message-UUID: daaa2200-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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! -- Aharon (Arnold) Robbins --- Pioneer Consulting Ltd. arnold AT skeeve DOT com P.O. Box 354 Home Phone: +972 8 979-0381 Fax: +1 206 350 8765 Nof Ayalon Cell Phone: +972 50 729-7545 D.N. Shimshon 99785 ISRAEL