From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <8ccc8ba40610031341h4f6bd9a6y34fa0c9142b5b0c5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 22:41:38 +0200 From: "Francisco J Ballesteros" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] gs In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <8fd802a4a0bcc60a27f43346bbccf0c5@plan9.bell-labs.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: c4a00e08-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I'm curious. any other interpreter that could be ported? On 10/3/06, Charles Forsyth wrote: > as tedious as waiting for gs to do something is waiting > for db to load all its symbols to debug it not doing something. > if they ever find another candidate for a planet to replace pluto, > they should call it `ghostscript'. it will be big enough to qualify. > > out of idle interest, why has there never been a replacement? > is it really that hard? > > >