> Someone needs to point out to non-plan9 people that the plan9
> way is really dynamic linking + object oriented programming
> on steroids.  But with a different calling convention and
> different limitations.  Of course, since it uses utf8 strings
> as arguments, some people will want to internationalize them
> (how dare you force us to use an english word?  We in
> foobarland don't say "volume").

i think somebody (anyone remember who?) said something like:
"Plan 9 is object oriented; its objects are files".

translation between languages could be done using pipefile
and a filter (i think).

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