Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on Blue Gene

2008-07-30 Thread Steven D. Vormwald
ron minnich wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Steven D. Vormwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong here, but don't these require extensive run-time support, in addition to compiler support? Will the run-time libraries also be linux libraries

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on Blue Gene

2008-07-30 Thread Steven D. Vormwald
ron minnich wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Steven D. Vormwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So would developers on this platform be encouraged to use languages and features currently in plan 9 for HPC development, or would they target existing HPC languages and features, which wo

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on Blue Gene

2008-07-30 Thread Steven D. Vormwald
ron minnich wrote: In the HPC world, there is lots of conservatism. There is an editor at LANL, named Fred, written in Fortran, that has been in use for longer than most of you have been alive. Until very recently, it was a required part of any HPC system. So, we're doing a binary compatibility

Re: [9fans] sad commentary

2008-06-30 Thread Steven D. Vormwald
erik quanstrom wrote: is not available under Plan 9. (Or is it?) As there is no simple introduction to Plan 9 new users will just go the easy way and get Windows or Linux. lack of an introduction is not the problem. not being unix is the problem. Looking too much like UNIX while acting dif

Re: [9fans] bug in echo?

2008-04-03 Thread Steven D. Vormwald
Pietro Gagliardi wrote: The ultimate echo, actually useful, but no one wants it. NAME echo: echo arguments SYNOPSIS echo [-1abCDEeilmNnOqrtuVvwXx] [-B base] [-c cmd] [-d char] [-f file] [-L len] [-o file] [-S voice] [-s char] [args...] DESCRIPTION echo outputs its arguments. It ta