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Anyone use(ing) Potion for something other than just playing around with the source?
by bluefish 17y ago
Anyone use(ing) Potion for something other than just playing around with the source?
- technoweenie 17y agoNo, it's still missing floats, mixins, reflection, etc. Not to mention integration with existing libs like databases, xml parsing, etc.
- silentbicycle 17y agoWhich is too bad, because it really encumbers implementing something truly novel. To be realistically useful, a tool needs to integrate with existing tools and standards, but that's a lot of work. "I estimate that 90-95% of the work in Plan 9 was directly or indirectly to honor externally imposed standards." - Rob Pike, "Systems Software Research is Irrelevant" (http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/rob/utah2000.pdf http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/rob/utah2000.pdf)