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Date: Fri,  9 Jun 2006 16:39:53 -0500
From: quanstro@quanstro.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] gcc on plan9
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which is to say that plan 9/unix don't take files to that extent. =20
processes are not files, for example, /proc notwithstanding.

- erik

On Fri Jun  9 16:34:08 CDT 2006, nemo@lsub.org wrote:
> >
> > Lisp machines/environments did this 25+ years ago.
> > Everything is an s-expression is even more fun than
> > everything is a file!
>=20
> I don=C2=B4t agree. The problem with lisp is that you don=C2=B4t have
> protection. Didn=C2=B4t you manage to bring down the whole emacs
> by, say, implementing your CD player in elisp?. Now, in
> Plan 9 processes are really isolated. If one of them crashes, the other
> ones stay alive (Probably).