Re: [9fans] Announce: port

["peter a. cejchan" <pac@cejchan.gli.cas.cz>]

boyd@strakt.com (Boyd Roberts) wrote in message news:<3CC93C53.2D0DEF98@strakt.com>...
> "peter a. cejchan" wrote:
> > > Native is actually a lot easier.
> >
> > Really? I mean 'native' should be w UTF, w/o stdio.h, etc. Or does
> > native stdio.h treat char as wchar?
>
> stdio is horrible.  wchar's are a disaster.
>
> use bio:
>
>     http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/2/bio
>
> The compiler already understands about UTF and runes and so does
> libc (obviously):
>
>     http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/comp.html
>
> Plan 9 is very close to unix, but it's not really.  A lot of grief
> gets caused by ape's heroic attempt to smash ANSI/POSIX into Plan 9.
>
> It only gets really nasty when you have to port something that uses
> the tty routines, sid's/pgrp's and signals -- most programs don't.

Oh, beat my English.  I was just curious if a native port, I mean
*without* APE and , hopefully, *without stdio.h* would be "a lot
easier" (when it means almost complete rewrite). Nevertheless,
although the program is very helpful for me, I must admit it is not
worth a rewrite: rather a complete redesign as an rc script using grep
and other standard utils.

++pac.