From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Creating a Plan 9 exhibit for an Expo. From: YAMANASHI Takeshi Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:10:52 +0900 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: e686fbfc-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Wed Sep 22 10:14:52 JST 2004, Kenji Okamoto wrote: > > I used to use acme on Inferno when I didn't have a way to input > > kanji on Plan 9. > I've never have such a case, what situation? There has been ktrans always but the program seemed not good enough for my daily use then. I eventually made an skk-like input program myself. But until then, I used inferno acme. > > Inferno accepts kanji character input from > > Windows IME 2000. > Hm, then, that Inferno must be new version. No, it's not. It was Inferno 3rd ed. on Windows NT4 and two years ago. > > Limbo programming is a great fun too. > great joy as a minor? Again, no. :) Limbo is a good programming language. Every shortcomings in C is fixed in Limbo, I think. Modularity, tuple, array, parallel programming & communication, etc. At the same time, Limbo stays simple and clean compared to other newer languages like c++, java. Good tools give their user joy on using them. > In the case of Inferno, I don't feel such a strong policy, and there is > little that cannot be done by other than Inferno either. My understanding is that Inferno is built around the same strong policy as Plan 9, a file sharing protocol. But the implementation is different. It's written in Limbo rather than C. --