From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bakul Shah Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 11:03:39 -0700 Message-Id: References: <1529530542.3279707.1414877304.5B04A2FD@webmail.messagingengine.com> <1529594591.3616046.1415871392.7B6B65AC@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <1529594591.3616046.1415871392.7B6B65AC@webmail.messagingengine.com> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] What are you using Plan 9 for? Topicbox-Message-UUID: d838bec6-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Jun 21, 2018, at 8:23 AM, Ethan A. Gardener wrote: >=20 > Thanks! I don't know APL at all, beyond the fact that its need for a graph= ical (or at least sophisticated) display held it back in the past. I should p= robably look into it now, I'm sure it would save me from making some mistake= s in my design. Languages j, k & q are ascii only. K is quite minimalist (compared to APL & j). I quite like Scheme, k and plan9 for their minimalist aesthetics. Arthur Whitney, k=E2=80=99s designer, had told me he was making it run on bare metal. He was muttering about how Linux just gets in the way! Though I don=E2=80=99t know if he actually did that. Another crazy bare metal tale: A few years before Eben Upton came up with Raspberry Pi, he had ported cpython to run on the videocore on a GPU only chip (bcm2707) using custom software hackery. Using python like BASIC is a great idea! Personally I=E2=80=99d prefer something like k, Scheme, python or lua (and n= ot forth) to boot into. I am admire forth but I=E2=80=99m not a fan of *programming* in stack languages!=