From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <92c0a65f5d11f7e5fcf9b1bf72fa3d58@9srv.net> From: a@9srv.net To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: RE: [9fans] fp stack overflow -- hypot In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 10:14:01 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: 198ebac2-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 i'd rather see ape stick around. imperfect, sure, but certainly still useful. there's a significant body of code that i either run on plan 9 (ghostscript, troff) or would like to see running on plan 9. given a finite set of plan 9 development resources (read: people), i'd rather see our efforts spent on other things than porting (and keeping current) the stuff we already have under ape. that aside, for the few programs i've written for unix, i've found ape to be a wonderful testbed for conformance and likely portability. granted, today i'd probably use rsc's 9libs instead... =E3=82=A2