From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <6ed5ff899befa6861e04b05c8e512751@plan9.escet.urjc.es> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Serving 9p in python - anyone started that? From: Fco.J.Ballesteros MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:49:46 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1e73225a-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > or data to an appropreate control or data files. Yes, I agree. However, > rc is the one on which we do all those work? I don't want to live with > shell scripts even such rc. Could we have more complete script > language for this purpose? When I wanted to be able to do 9p rc scripting, the tasks at hand were simple. For those times when it's not so simple I'd prefer to do that in a language like limbo instead, and resort to C just when I need a sharpen tool. In fact, this summer I did a limbo to C translator, trying to get a limbo version working natively in Plan 9. My idea was to write also a companion that could allow the translated limbo code to work with the native libraries, so that the Alef history would not repeat (thrown away because things had to be maintained twice, AFAIK). Sadly, I was not happy at all with how it worked and I just did throw it away. Maybe next summer ;-)