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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@planete.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Perl5 & kenji arisawa's perl question
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From: andrey mirtchovski <aam396@mail.usask.ca>

> tell us the stories then... part of why people are attracted to p9 is the
> history that goes with it :)

c++ and plan 9 have nothing to do with each other.

i have a reliable source about c++, back in the '80s.

i wasn't there, but my source is/was reliable.

ok, i'll tell you one story:

   programs that compiled one day would not compile the next day

with this sort of reliability, would you choose it as a programming
language -- and that's long before the bloat.

those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it...