Re: [9front] New user

[Benjamin Riefenstahl <b.riefenstahl@turtle-trading.net>]

Hi Humm,

> Quoth Benjamin Riefenstahl:
>>Besides trying out the native stuff, I have started a personal project
>>to get Tcl to run.

Humm writes:
> Isn’t there a Tcl port in fgb’s contrib?  (That means you do `9fs
> 9pio` (read /rc/bin/9fs) and look at
> /n/9pio/contrib/fgb/root/sys/src/^(lib cmd)/^tcl.)

Right, that is the basis of what I am doing.  First there was a problem
with the 64 bit version (seems fgb worked on 32 bit at the time), that
was a Tcl problem.  Than I moved it to a recent version of Tcl and now I
am trying to get through the Tcl test suite.  And as I said, that turns
up some limitations.

> (Also, why?)

For fun, to learn about Plan 9 and to give back a bit to my favorite
programming language.

> APE was not yet thrown out of 9front.  Generally bugfixes are good.

Ok, thanks.

> Yep, APE is old and quite unmaintained.  I recommend looking at
> https://git.sr.ht/~ft/npe .

Thinks for that pointer, I have just seen that, too.  It looks quite
limited, though, even compared to APE.

Thanks, benny