On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:23 PM, matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> >>> Without starting a flame war, I'd like to know if some of you think it >>> could >>> be useful on a Plan 9 grid/environment. >>> >>> > > I've often though quite a few languages could be shrunken down fit with > Plan9's diretory/files system. Python, for instance, would need much less > code for networking etc. > > So a language that specialsed in I/O primitives would be a good choice. That > doesn't sound like Haskell to me. I/O is about changing state. That said, > there must be a way to make it fit :) > > Of the few I have used, I think python is the best hybrid that fits. >
once in a while I play with fgb's port of tinyscheme and it seems to fit for the pretty simple stuff I do. just for fun, I started adding some Plan 9 native calls to tinyscheme and it worked nicely. iru
