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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 development
Date: Thu,  4 Nov 2010 22:20:04 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bb4fd0152d5ccdb8acf49ae0d7b3f4d5@terzarima.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <773C7824-C50D-49EE-9CF8-74E91515F2F3@corpus-callosum.com>

>But why isn't the source for mk (3929 lines w/ headers, okay 4661 with mkfile and acid)
>at least as long as all that Java in the ant distribution (213151 lines)?
>That's a lot of catching up to do.
>The market has clearly spoken, and it appears that more lines dominates the soup.

one interesting thing about that example is that if it were done again
for the Plan 9 environment, mk might well be even smaller, since
some of the existing functionality isn't really used,
or might be achieved by simpler mechanisms, or with functionality
added instead by further composition with other programs;
alternatively, it might be redone in a radically different way.

either way you probably wouldn't get an entire O'Reilly book out of it though.



  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-04 22:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 91+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-04  9:36 Admiral Fukov
2010-11-04  9:47 ` Lucio De Re
2010-11-04 10:20   ` Steve Simon
2010-11-04 11:30 ` Brantley Coile
2010-11-04 15:39 ` David Leimbach
2010-11-04 15:55   ` Stanley Lieber
2010-11-04 16:01     ` John Floren
2010-11-04 16:39       ` ron minnich
2010-11-04 16:57         ` Stanley Lieber
2010-11-04 17:01         ` Don Bailey
2010-11-04 17:19         ` Jeff Sickel
2010-11-04 22:20           ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2010-11-05  1:41             ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2010-11-05  3:50               ` Bruce Ellis
2010-11-05  7:11                 ` Lucio De Re
2010-11-05  7:55                   ` Bruce Ellis
2010-11-05 13:31                     ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-11-05 15:16                       ` C H Forsyth
2010-11-05 17:07                       ` dexen deVries
2010-11-05 17:18                         ` Nick LaForge
2010-11-05 17:32                           ` dexen deVries
2010-11-05 17:39                             ` andrey mirtchovski
2010-11-05 17:55                               ` dexen deVries
2010-11-05 17:45                             ` David Leimbach
2010-11-05 18:14                               ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-05 18:37                                 ` roger peppe
2010-11-05 19:06                                   ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-08 11:04                                     ` roger peppe
2010-11-08 21:24                                       ` Bruce Ellis
2010-11-08 22:22                                         ` Charles Forsyth
2010-11-08 22:25                                           ` Bruce Ellis
2010-11-08 22:33                                           ` Charles Forsyth
2010-11-09  2:10                                             ` Jeff Sickel
2010-11-09  3:18                                               ` EBo
2010-11-09  8:10                                                 ` Bruce Ellis
2010-11-13 19:15                                             ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-11-05 20:37                         ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-11-06  0:55                           ` Charles Forsyth
2010-11-06  2:20                         ` Bruce Ellis
2010-11-06 20:24                           ` dexen deVries
2010-11-05 18:43             ` Bakul Shah
2010-11-13 19:24         ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-11-14  2:17           ` Gary V. Vaughan
2010-11-14  5:47             ` Anthony Sorace
2010-11-14  6:24               ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-14  8:13                 ` Gary V. Vaughan
2010-11-14 15:56                   ` Jacob Todd
2010-11-14 16:24                     ` ron minnich
2010-11-14  6:26               ` Russ Cox
2010-11-14  8:03                 ` Anthony Sorace
2010-11-14 15:23                 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-14 17:46                   ` Russ Cox
2010-11-14 22:16                     ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-14  9:10             ` tlaronde
2010-11-14  9:32               ` Gary V. Vaughan
2010-11-14 10:22                 ` tlaronde
2010-11-14 10:50               ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2010-11-14 11:47                 ` tlaronde
2010-11-14 21:44                 ` Charles Forsyth
2010-11-14 21:47                   ` Ori Bernstein
2010-11-18  5:30                   ` Joel C. Salomon
2010-11-18  5:57                     ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-18 22:50                     ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-11-19  2:06                       ` Joel C. Salomon
2010-11-19  3:13                         ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-11-25  9:39                       ` Greg Comeau
2010-11-15  4:29                 ` Gary V. Vaughan
2010-11-15  5:05                   ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2010-11-15 15:48                   ` Dan Cross
2010-11-15 16:24                     ` Lucio De Re
2010-11-15 17:26                       ` Brian L. Stuart
2010-11-16  3:32                         ` lucio
2010-11-16  4:53                           ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-16  5:09                             ` lucio
2010-11-16 22:18                           ` Christopher Nielsen
2010-11-15 18:11                   ` Dave Eckhardt
2010-11-15 20:04                     ` Steve Simon
     [not found]           ` <79E9F966-3C4E-44D9-8B1F-D22C9548CE74@gnu.org>
2010-11-15  1:02             ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-11-15  4:17               ` Gary V. Vaughan
2010-11-15 16:22                 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-17 23:48                 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-11-04 16:00   ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-04 17:12     ` Admiral Fukov
2010-11-04 17:19       ` andrey mirtchovski
2010-11-04 17:30         ` Admiral Fukov
2010-11-04 20:27     ` David Leimbach
2010-11-04 12:15 dexen deVries
2010-11-04 12:48 ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2010-11-04 17:14   ` Admiral Fukov
2010-11-17  7:38 Pavel Zholkover
2010-11-17  7:44 ` Lucio De Re

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