Re: [9fans] i'm afraid we've had it wrong

2013-09-30 Thread Jonathan Cast
quot;simply" . . . > part of the > reason > one still sees line items that say "works with ip6". -- Jonathan Cast jonathancc...@fastmail.fm

Re: [9fans] trailing newline in awk

2012-01-26 Thread Jonathan Cast
On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 13:15 +0100, dexen deVries wrote: > hi list, > > can't wrap my head around this: in an awk script, how to take some action if > a > file lacks last trailing Line Feed? > > i want to modify files with contents like: > text LF > text LF > text > > and leave undisturbed file

Re: [9fans] Modern development language for Plan 9, WAS: Re: RESOLVED: recoving important header file rudely

2011-02-02 Thread Jonathan Cast
On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 15:11 -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > > start := now(); > > while (now() < start + 2hours); > > > > You don't expect GC to be able to trigger, right? > > i sure do. Ah. Interesting. Who's done that? jcc

Re: [9fans] Modern development language for Plan 9, WAS: Re: RESOLVED: recoving important header file rudely

2011-02-02 Thread Jonathan Cast
On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 14:31 -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > > I don't follow. Garbage collection certainly can be done in a library > > (e.g., Boehm). GC is in my experience normally triggered by > > > > * Allocation --- which is a function call in C > > * Explicit call to the `garbag

Re: [9fans] Modern development language for Plan 9, WAS: Re: RESOLVED: recoving important header file rudely

2011-02-02 Thread Jonathan Cast
On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 13:21 -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > > A runtime system is just a library whose entry points are language > > keywords.[1] In go, dynamic allocation, threads, channels, etc. are > > accessed via language features, so the libraries that implement those > > things are considere

Re: [9fans] Modern development language for Plan 9, WAS: Re: RESOLVED: recoving important header file rudely

2011-02-02 Thread Jonathan Cast
On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 12:50 -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > > Even C has a runtime. Perhaps you should look more into how programming > > languages are implemented :-). C++ has one too, especially in the wake of > > exceptions and such. > > really? what do you consider to be the c runtime? > i d

Re: [9fans] nice quote

2009-09-02 Thread Jonathan Cast
On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 13:02 -0700, David Leimbach wrote: > And if you prefer a plea to authority over logic, I haven't said > anything that Simon Peyton Jones hasn't himself said about Haskell. Well, I disagree quite strongly about Simon Peyton Jones about a number of things. Which I think I in

Re: [9fans] nice quote

2009-09-02 Thread Jonathan Cast
On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 11:27 -0700, David Leimbach wrote: > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> > wrote: > >> > http://graphics.cs.williams.edu/archive/SweeneyHPG2009/TimHPG2009.pdf > >> > > on p. 43/44 i believe it is claimed that one

Re: [9fans] Using the Acme Editor

2008-08-19 Thread Jonathan Cast
On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 00:27 +0100, Eris Discordia wrote: > No, you justify your salary, dear Sir. I honestly respect you for having > written the nemo book--you're nemo after all. That, however, won't change > my stance on Plan 9 and the 9people. You have nothing else but > "researching" OS's an