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From: W B Hacker <wbh@conducive.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] *Suspect* Re:  mishandling empty lists - let's fix it
Date: Wed,  7 Oct 2009 00:35:14 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ACB71C2.7000108@conducive.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091006120146.GA3758@zoidberg.hsd1.mi.comcast.net>

Jacob Todd wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 08:59:32AM +0200, Uriel wrote:
>> I'm sure the people in charge of writing the next version of the PoSix
>> standard will be very happy to adopt your proposal!
>>
>> That is, if they have not independently 'discovered' this fantastic
>> solution to this horrible 'problem' already on their own.
>>
>> Of course, they could also move with the times, and adopt an XML
>> format for command arguments which would be much more extensible and
>> Web 2.0 compliant.
>>
>> That way all commands could share the same dynamically linked parser,
>> and one could write scripts with their favorite XML-editor!
>>
>> uriel
>>
>
> Breaking news: bash now uses mysql to store your history,  environmental
> variables, et cetera.
>
> Don't forget to tune in at 7 to discuss Emacs newest feature,a Virtual Machine
> that runs in the editor.
>

That second part ain't new.

But it's a virtual machine that mostly runs its *mouth*.

Bill



  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-06 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-03 16:03 [9fans] " Sam Watkins
2009-10-03 17:01 ` Rob Pike
2009-10-03 18:31   ` Sam Watkins
2009-10-03 18:56     ` Rob Pike
2009-10-03 19:05       ` blstuart
2009-10-03 19:18         ` hiro
2009-10-03 20:31     ` Steve Simon
2009-10-05 16:08     ` John Stalker
2009-10-05 16:24       ` erik quanstrom
2009-10-05 17:20         ` John Stalker
2009-10-05 19:09           ` roger peppe
2009-10-03 18:46 ` Bakul Shah
2009-10-03 19:11   ` Sam Watkins
2009-10-04  4:12     ` lucio
2009-10-04  7:17       ` Sam Watkins
2009-10-04  9:18         ` lucio
2009-10-05  6:20           ` Sam Watkins
2009-10-05  6:53             ` Federico G. Benavento
2009-10-04 10:46         ` Richard Miller
2009-10-06  6:59           ` Uriel
2009-10-06 12:01             ` Jacob Todd
2009-10-06 16:35               ` W B Hacker [this message]
2009-10-04 10:59         ` sqweek
2009-10-05  5:54           ` Sam Watkins
2009-10-05 11:23           ` matt
2009-10-04 10:18 ` Charles Forsyth
2009-10-04 10:26   ` lucio

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