Re: [9fans] Java, ML, C++, and Perl Languages on Plan9?

["Howard Trickey" <howard@research.bell-labs.com>]

> People are asking me if these languges are available on Plan9. I'd
> imagine there's an SML port used internally at the Labs, and I thought
> I'd read about Kaffe. I'm imagining that Perl could be gotten working
> with APE and a lot of hacking...

Sean Dorward and then I worked on making SML run on Plan 9,
on the Sparc and Mips architecture, but not the Intel one, and also
not since SML version 108.  A fair amount of assembly hacking
was required, not trivial, since Plan 9 assemblers take a different
format than the standard assemblers for various architectures.
If anyone wants to do the (fairly substantial) amount of work necessary
to make it run on an Intel with the current version of SML, let
me know and I can send what we did here as a starting point.

Someone (sorry, forgotten the name) make Perl work on the
previous version of Plan 9, and I think the changes for Plan 9
made it into the Perl source (don't know if they're still there though).

Howard Trickey