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From: Matthew Swank <akopa@comcast.net>
To: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 13:01:36 -0500
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Subject: [9fans] Re: alef compiler
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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