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From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Stack initialisation
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 16:17:30 +0200
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> By the way, it took me just a couple of hours each to convert
> Rio and Acme from Alef to the new threaded C. It's not hard to
> do.

Granted.  And practice would be the right way to learn.  Please don't
take it as stubborness, I have a Limbo program I want to port to Plan
9 (I'm still saving up for the Inferno distribution, US$300 is quite a
lot of money down here) and I was wondering how difficult it would be
to get Alef up and running.

I accept that portability is critical, and that Bell Labs' efforts to
provide a C thread library should not be dismissed lightly.  On the
other hand, there's room for taste, and I hope I'm not the only one to
believe that the elegance of Alef should not be entirely sacrificed on
the altar of pragmatism.

With a bit of luck, there will be a community (are you listening,
Charles?)  of interested parties willing to put in some effort and
supplement Bell Labs' offering with some of our own.

It is easy enough for Bell Labs to point out that use of Alef is not
supported and is deprecated.

++L