Re: [9fans] building Alef language

2019-09-22 Thread Sean Hinchee
You could also just run 2e in a VM and show it off there :) 2e can be coaxed into running under virtualbox, even. Cheers, Sean On 9/22/19 12:46 AM, Phil Kulin wrote: You right. I am preparing slides for my report on upcoming GolangConf-2019 in Moscow. I need Alef, libthread and Limbo for

Re: [9fans] aux/timesync -n doesn't work

2019-09-22 Thread Richard Miller
> I don't think I ever had a reason for that assumption beyond laziness and > craziness. Not so crazy. RTFMing in Plan 9 requires close attention - minimalist style means every word matters. The clue is in ndb(6): Ndb/cs can be made to perform such network aware searches by

Re: [9fans] building Alef language

2019-09-22 Thread Ethan Gardener
On Sun, Sep 22, 2019, at 10:38 AM, Rodrigo G. López wrote: > so you need them running in order to execute them publicly, in front of the > go masses. I don't think it's quite that bad. (But maybe it is! XD )

Re: [9fans] I went down a Forth rabbit hole and found Glenda

2019-09-22 Thread Ethan Gardener
Replying to the subject, I'm surprised there's not more association between Forth and Plan 9. Both seem to be based on changing design goals to make the software simple. ;) The biggest difference for me is the Forth world tells you how. (It's a bigger world, so there are more people to write

Re: [9fans] building Alef language

2019-09-22 Thread Rodrigo G . López
so you need them running in order to execute them publicly, in front of the go masses. On Sun, Sep 22, 2019, 9:48 AM Phil Kulin wrote: > You right. I am preparing slides for my report on upcoming > GolangConf-2019 in Moscow. I need Alef, libthread and Limbo for > explaining some golang

Re: [9fans] building Alef language

2019-09-22 Thread Phil Kulin
Oooops :)) Thank you :) On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 12:29 PM Ethan Gardener wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 20, 2019, at 9:45 PM, Phil Kulin wrote: > > > > # I don't know why, but "tar x alef.tgz" command do nothing... > > You requested to extract a file named alef.tgz from a tar stream on standard > input.

Re: [9fans] building Alef language

2019-09-22 Thread Ethan Gardener
On Fri, Sep 20, 2019, at 9:45 PM, Phil Kulin wrote: > > # I don't know why, but "tar x alef.tgz" command do nothing... You requested to extract a file named alef.tgz from a tar stream on standard input. ;) You need the f option to specify a tar file.

Re: [9fans] aux/timesync -n doesn't work

2019-09-22 Thread Ethan Gardener
On Thu, Sep 19, 2019, at 11:11 AM, Richard Miller wrote: > > # when timesync(8) says "$ntp", it's lying. > > Actually it's not. But it depends on having a definition > for ntp= associated with your host or [sub]network in the > ndb database. Oh of course! I wrote a top-level definition in ndb,

Re: [9fans] building Alef language

2019-09-22 Thread Phil Kulin
You right. I am preparing slides for my report on upcoming GolangConf-2019 in Moscow. I need Alef, libthread and Limbo for explaining some golang features. On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 6:16 AM Lucio De Re wrote: > > I have a version for legacy Plan 9, lightly tested, that I have not > looked at in

Re: [9fans] I went down a Forth rabbit hole and found Glenda

2019-09-22 Thread Iruatã Souza
Hi Skip, Glad you found 9p4! Please let me know if you need any help with it. It is not complete and surely lacks documentation, but testclient.f can help you get started. It currently implements the minimum required to walk and do file i/o. On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 6:46 PM Skip Tavakkolian

Re: [9fans] building Alef language

2019-09-22 Thread Phil Kulin
Yes. But this requires writing wrapper code as in /sys/src/libc/9sys/write.c I have no reason to do this. But writing wrapper may be better On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 2:02 AM Rodrigo G. López wrote: > > wth. they are the same plus an offset, which you can set to -1LL to replicate > the behavior of