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From: Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com>
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On March 10, 2024 7:01:38 PM EDT, "Jay F=2E Shachter" <jay@m5=2Echicago=2Ei=
l=2Eus> wrote:
>
>This is a 9front mailing list, to which Plan9 questions are routinely
>asked (e=2Eg=2E, "What is the Plan 9 equivalent of uname?")=2E
>
>Is 9front widely considered to be the successor to Plan9, in the sense
>that, e=2Eg=2E, Fortran90 is the successor to Fortran77, such that answer=
s
>descriptive of Fortran90 can be given to a question about "Fortran"?
>Similarly, can an answer descriptive of 9front be given to a question
>about Plan9?  Or are there other incompatible operating systems that
>claim to be the successor to Plan9?
>
>(Parenthetically, and completely off-topic for this mailing list, the
>most recent standardized version of Fortran is Fortran2023, but does
>anyone in the real world actually use a version of Fortran that is
>less than 34 years old?)
>
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>                        "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur"
>
>

there's no official anything, and nobody writing 9front code really cares =
about names=2E 9front forked from bell labs plan 9 in 2011=2E the concepts,=
 and most of the features remain the same=2E it's probay fine to refer to a=
ny of the existing forks of bell labs plan 9 as plan 9, especially since th=
e ones that diverged widely enough to raise objections have mostly ceased t=
o be developed=2E

sl