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
next prev parent 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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