Re: [9fans] Stack initialisation

[Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>]

On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 03:36:55PM +0000, ozan s. yigit wrote:
> 
> looks like existing compiler cannot be distributed outside 2nd edition
> licensees. are you going to reimplement alef? if you are going to spend
> the time, why not re-implement limbo? at least that is a language
> with some future use under other OSs as well.
> 
I'm hoping you're wrong, but I take your point.

I'm really not competent enough to re-implement Limbo _or_ Alef,
although I'm pretty certain a re-implementation would produce a
language with the best features from both.  They are really not that
distinct, to my ability to determine this.

> alef is an island, elegant or not.
> 
Maybe.  But it is also a proof of principle, and it has a following.
If Plan 9 is to fly from the Bell Labs nest, Alef may be part of the
wind beneath its wings.  But please keep in mind that I do not have a
religious need to move in the Alef direction, I just happen to like
the language and the challenge to make it work.  My own abilities in
this matter are limited.

++L