h9

Plan 9 tools implemented in Haskell

What and why

"Plan 9 from Bell Labs" is an alternative operating system that never quite caught on. Its proponents believe strongly that Plan 9 offers a cleaner, more powerful operating system paradigm than Unix. I just like that there's a nice set of Plan 9 command line tools available at http://tools.suckless.org/9base that really need to be implemented in Haskell.

Goals

Simplicity, unity, "inner light".

Plan 9 tried to out Unix Unix, I want to out Plan 9 Plan 9. But I'm also doing it POSIX compatibly, so it's really not possible. Instead, I just hope to use Haskell to create a very clean way of implementing these Plan 9 tools' functionality.

Education

This project isn't terribly difficult nor is it useful. The plan instead is to share ways of thinking about command line tools using Haskell.

Plan 9

Now implemented

• cat

To be implemented

• tee
• uniq

Not to be implemented

• read