From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <h81es2$kfg$1@panix2.panix.com>
References: <422c2c66f1d93f0928ca31b8c1e0c927@hamnavoe.com>
	<fe41879c0909050422s77247280y4fcd7d89a621b8b4@mail.gmail.com>
	<h81es2$kfg$1@panix2.panix.com>
Date: Mon,  7 Sep 2009 05:39:26 -0400
Message-ID: <fe41879c0909070239q1846b4b4wcbd2e28724be3bed@mail.gmail.com>
From: Akshat Kumar <akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net>
To: comeau@comeaucomputing.com,
	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: 680e60f0-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025

>>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?
>
> It's certainly true that cultures and mindsets build up
> around different things, some of it reasonable, some of it not,
> and I observe Plan 9 is not much different in this regard.
> That said, saying "push" and "inherent" are probably
> inherently pushing things :)

I suppose my wording showed emphasis in all the wrong places.
The question I meant to ask was (given the context of the
referenced article):
  In the Plan 9 environment, are languages considered to be "tools"?

The rest was just my reasoning to ask.


Best,
ak