From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1529530542.3279707.1414877304.5B04A2FD@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1529530542.3279707.1414877304.5B04A2FD@webmail.messagingengine.com> From: Lucio De Re Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 05:58:42 +0200 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Subject: Re: [9fans] What are you using Plan 9 for? Topicbox-Message-UUID: d7fe9bba-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 6/20/18, Ethan A. Gardener wrote: > [ ... ] Most of it is going into game scripting at the moment, but on the back > burner is a Forth-based project; a sort of operating system where the > primary interface to all tasks is a Forth interpreter. [ ... ] Bakul may not agree, but that sounds like a novel take on APL. Different underlying syntax, but conceptually quite similar. Forth is one of those things that happened while I wasn't watching, so I'm not at all familiar with it, so it makes sense for me to use the model I know, but this sounds quite intriguing. Do you know APL and/or any of its derivatives? You'd bit a better judge. The idea of the full interpreter at the command line is a powerful one and APL's one liners handle much better the shortcomings of any Unix shell's regarding multi-line constructs. It would interesting to explore your particular take on this and place it in a broader context. Lucio.