From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Plan9 Programming languages ! -- PASCAL? From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-fcefpnrcjioperqcgmlxhttevt" Message-Id: <20011214111531.2573E199BB@mail.cse.psu.edu> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 11:15:24 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 372dba4a-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-fcefpnrcjioperqcgmlxhttevt Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. --upas-fcefpnrcjioperqcgmlxhttevt Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu> Received: from punt-2.mail.demon.net by mailstore for forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk id 1008325915:20:03137:5; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 10:31:55 GMT Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by punt-2.mail.demon.net id aa2105624; 14 Dec 2001 10:31 GMT Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.4.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 1A62A19A25; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 05:30:25 -0500 (EST) Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: from mercury.bath.ac.uk (mercury.bath.ac.uk [138.38.32.81]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id ECF38199FA for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 05:29:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from news by mercury.bath.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.12 #1) id 16EpQj-0001IC-00 for 9fans@cse.psu.edu; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 10:19:01 +0000 Received: from GATEWAY by bath.ac.uk with netnews for 9fans@cse.psu.edu (9fans@cse.psu.edu) To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Message-ID: <878zc6vo0y.fsf@becket.becket.net> Organization: University of California, Irvine Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: <3C15310A.FD5D7988@null.net>, <87adwp32ua.fsf@becket.becket.net>, <3C17CDF7.A511E39C@null.net> Subject: [9fans] Re: Plan9 Programming languages ! -- PASCAL? Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.7 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Help: List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 10:14:54 GMT "Douglas A. Gwyn" writes: > "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" wrote: > > "Douglas A. Gwyn" 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 --upas-fcefpnrcjioperqcgmlxhttevt--