From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <03e901c003d6$93fba0c0$03c684c3@psychobasketcase.org> From: "Boyd Roberts" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <200008112034.QAA11147@smtp2.fas.harvard.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Anyone working on C++ for Plan9? Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 22:56:10 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: fa184ebe-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 From: Russ Cox > why do i see this trend to smash plan 9 back into unix? > > surely you're not going to argue that having c > as the only implementation language is an > essential property of plan 9. no i didn't say that. i believe c++ is a collosal disaster; even back in '84. programs that ran wouldn't even _compile_ the next day and believe the story is that those who were trying it gave up in disjust. that was when it was small. this is hearsay, but from a realiable source. if you want write bad programs c++ and java give you a quantum leap. on the other hand i'd love to see limbo on it. maybe it is?