> 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.
Lua (http://www.lua.org/) is also a good choice as its standard library is so minimalist that porting it is trivial. IIRC there is an APE port somewhere in contrib. John
