From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <44DB3F03.4050803@lanl.gov> Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:13:23 -0600 From: Ronald G Minnich User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.8-1.1.fc4 (X11/20060501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] I suppose if there's no other way to do it (a quote from the tcl web site) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9b724fa0-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 "Sure, some other languages have libraries for accessing web or ftp sites, or looking inside zip files. But how many provide an open ended and extensible system that allows you to access any such resource using the same I/O commands you'd use with regular disk files?" hmm. in the language library? Well, I guess if that's all you can do ... but this is a really odd quote. And I actually like tcl ... ron