From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <422c2c66f1d93f0928ca31b8c1e0c927@hamnavoe.com> References: <422c2c66f1d93f0928ca31b8c1e0c927@hamnavoe.com> Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 07:22:37 -0400 Message-ID: From: Akshat Kumar To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [9fans] nice quote Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6565ee18-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html "Programming languages are just tools, after all." Considering that Plan 9 has only two inherent languages, and its users often push for work to be done in only those, what is the Plan 9 perspective of languages and tools in relation to each other? Is it in agreement with this statement? ak