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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




  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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