From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Plan9 Programming languages ! -- PASCAL?
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 11:15:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011214111531.2573E199BB@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)
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not really, it just takes time to do all these things and there
are more urgent things to do. i've got a fairly big list myself.
meanwhile, we've all still got opinions about these things.
some of us fitfully post them as a form of displacement activity
when we should be working away at those lists...
actually, i'd probably prefer porting my Pascal compiler
to Plan 9 to working on Inferno's PPP set up but it can't be all fun.
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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Re: Plan9 Programming languages ! -- PASCAL?
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 10:14:54 GMT
Message-ID: <878zc6vo0y.fsf@becket.becket.net>
"Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net> writes:
> "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" wrote:
> > "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net> writes:
> > > D De Villiers wrote:
> > > > No Pascal implementation ? Pascal compiler etc etc ?
> > > Why? What use would it be?
> > It would let you run Pascal programs.
>
> And what use would *that* be?
> Seriously, are there any major apps written in Pascal?
Um, TeX, as has already been noted. I think Pascal is a pointless
silly language, myself.
But still--even if there are misguided people who want to use it for
teaching, the availability of a compiler makes a system more
attractive to those people.
It seems this discussion is of a schema that is very common on this
newsgroup:
A: Why doesn't Plan 9 have a fritz-widget?
B: A fritz-widget is useless.
A: Lots of people like fritz-widgets.
B: Those people are misguided.
A: But I want to use the wooble application, and it requires
fritz-widgets.
B: The wooble application is a bad application.
A: What does Plan 9 have to do the things that the wooble application
is for?
B: No.
A: Hmm.
[some time later]
B: I wonder why Plan 9 hasn't caught on more than it has. Maybe it's
because people reject our brilliance.
Thomas
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-14 11:15 forsyth [this message]
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2001-12-13 21:52 bwc
2001-12-13 23:57 ` Andrew Simmons
2001-12-13 4:25 rob pike
2001-12-13 4:05 rob pike
2001-12-13 10:27 ` Ozan Yigit
2001-12-13 13:39 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-12-13 19:39 ` Andrew Simmons
2001-12-13 20:28 ` Matt
2001-12-13 1:41 Russ Cox
2001-12-13 1:51 ` Andrew Simmons
2001-12-13 1:55 ` Andrew Simmons
2001-12-12 22:43 forsyth
2001-12-12 21:50 David Gordon Hogan
2001-12-12 22:54 ` paurea
2001-12-12 23:16 ` Howard Trickey
2001-12-12 23:23 ` Dan Cross
2001-12-13 0:55 ` Andrew Simmons
2001-12-13 11:54 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-12-06 17:13 [9fans] Plan9 Programming languages ! D De Villiers
2001-12-10 10:01 ` [9fans] Re: Plan9 Programming languages ! -- PASCAL? D De Villiers
2001-12-11 10:07 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-12-12 9:48 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-12-13 10:26 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-12-13 12:04 ` Wladimir Mutel
2001-12-14 10:15 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-12-14 10:14 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-12-14 17:04 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-12-17 10:15 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-12-14 17:37 ` D De Villiers
2001-12-17 10:14 ` Daniel Warmuth
2001-12-18 17:27 ` D De Villiers
2001-12-18 19:35 ` Matt
2001-12-12 17:12 ` D De Villiers
2001-12-14 10:15 ` north_
2002-01-02 10:04 ` kim kubik
2002-01-02 11:12 ` mark powers
2002-01-02 11:22 ` Jon Snader
2002-01-02 11:31 ` Ralph Corderoy
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