[TUHS] On computerese

[Jacob Moody]

On 9/30/24 07:10, Russ Cox wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 4:17 AM <arnold at skeeve.com <mailto:arnold at skeeve.com>> wrote:
> 
>     > One of the tidyings I did during covid lockdown was to rewrite
>     > rc's parser not to use yacc anymore [1], specifically to make
>     > it easy to allow "foo x=y". As I wrote in the commit message,
>     > dd fans rejoice! (Also fans of -foo=bar flag syntax.)
> 
>     Very cool. Have other Plan 9 distros picked this up? Just wondering.
> 
> 
> I looked at https://9p.io/plan9/ <https://9p.io/plan9/> and also 9front and neither has the change.
> I don't think either is particularly maintained at this point.

Since (and including) 2020, 9front has averaged 700 commits a year to
the project, a very large portion of that being bug fixes and upkeep.
We've also been presenting some of the more interesting new work at
recent IWP9 conferences, now that they've become a yearly occurrence
again thanks to the Plan 9 Foundation.  From my perspective things
have been quite lively lately.

We did take a look at your rc parser changes (closer to when they were
first pushed to plan9port) but had decided not to adopt them at the
time.


Thank you,
Jacob Moody