From: Matthew Swank <akopa@comcast.net>
To: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
Cc: 9fans <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: [9fans] Re: alef compiler
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 13:01:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1085421696.19777.11.camel@kirschwenk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee9e417a04052323587c53654d@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 01:58, Russ Cox wrote:
> On my list of ideal changes to my programming environment,
> Alef syntax isn't very high. I'd much rather see better support
> for profiling, debugging, garbage collection, and automatically
> checking correctness.
>
> I think making Limbo run on Unix is a lot more interesting than
> making Alef run on Unix. If anyone wants to try that, I'd be
> happy to provide code and moral support.
A Unix Limbo compiler is an interesting idea, but couldn't you get most
of what you want with an ahead-of-time compiler that turned Dis into
native machine code?
It seems like no-one is especially interested in Alef as a systems
language anymore. Is there really more interest in Limbo divorced from
Dis?
Matt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-24 18:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-23 18:01 [9fans] " Matthew Swank
2004-05-24 6:58 ` [9fans] " Russ Cox
2004-05-24 18:01 ` Matthew Swank [this message]
2004-05-24 23:04 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2004-05-24 23:24 ` Russ Cox
2004-05-25 1:53 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-24 23:35 ` Matthew Swank
2004-05-25 0:42 ` rog
2004-05-25 14:29 ` Jeff Sickel
2004-05-25 14:42 ` rog
2004-05-25 17:51 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-25 17:56 ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2004-05-25 0:07 dmr
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