From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4f34febc0811201247n18a3c5eajd7f25462db5ed5a7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:47:12 -0800 From: "John Barham" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <49259D0E.9050700@proweb.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <881467ce0811200915odb0a042xb1c3aa2f292c2677@mail.gmail.com> <49259D0E.9050700@proweb.co.uk> Subject: Re: [9fans] What about Haskell? [was: How can I use alef?] Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4cb1bc22-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > I've often though quite a few languages could be shrunken down fit with > Plan9's diretory/files system. Python, for instance, would need much less > code for networking etc. > > So a language that specialsed in I/O primitives would be a good choice. That > doesn't sound like Haskell to me. I/O is about changing state. That said, > there must be a way to make it fit :) > > Of the few I have used, I think python is the best hybrid that fits. Lua (http://www.lua.org/) is also a good choice as its standard library is so minimalist that porting it is trivial. IIRC there is an APE port somewhere in contrib. John