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From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Les Misérables
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:12:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7f35e10cd1453e0f3fbf3e09a30ee920@quintile.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <730eae2365e8ddd3220c84d7de81b8a1@quanstro.net>

>>
>> I seem to remember Mjl, the author if the inferno ircfs, wrote an
>> ircfs for Plan 9 ages ago. Still, seems like a total waste of time
>> when you have a perfectly fine one in limbo, which is a much more
>> convenient language for building such a thing anyway.
>>

[snip]

> so, since an ircfs is not a huge project, i don't think
> it's unreasonable to write one for plan 9.  it's what i
> would do.
>
> - erik

I would add to Erik's comments that perhaps Akshat wants to write an ircfs,
partly to have the end result of having such a tool, but also for the
experience of learning the parts of the plan9 system and techniques
required to build it.

That is what I have done in the past, and what I continue to do.

-Steve



  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-18 18:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-17  1:07 Akshat Kumar
2009-01-18  2:04 ` Akshat Kumar
2009-01-18 11:14   ` Uriel
2009-01-18 14:28     ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-18 18:12       ` Steve Simon [this message]
2009-01-18 19:41       ` hiro
2009-01-19  9:26         ` Akshat Kumar
2009-01-18 20:16       ` LiteStar numnums
2009-01-18 21:53         ` Charles Forsyth
2009-01-18 21:50           ` LiteStar numnums
2009-01-18 22:26             ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-18 23:37               ` LiteStar numnums
2009-01-18 23:52                 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-19  0:19                   ` LiteStar numnums
2009-01-18 11:39   ` hiro
2009-01-17  1:14 Akshat Kumar
2009-01-17  1:17 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-17 14:36   ` Eris Discordia
2009-01-19  6:53 [9fans] Les Mis?rables jimmy brisson
2009-01-19  8:31 ` Eris Discordia
2009-01-19  9:45 ` Akshat Kumar
2009-01-19 13:39   ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-19 16:25 ` ron minnich
2009-01-19 16:43   ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-19 17:39 jimmy brisson
2009-01-19 20:05 ` Steve Simon
2009-01-19 20:27 ` Akshat Kumar
2009-02-25  4:00 ` Enrico Weigelt
2009-02-25 19:45   ` jimmy brisson
2009-02-25 20:40     ` Enrico Weigelt
2009-02-25 22:45       ` jimmy brisson

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