From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] more extensions
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 14:47:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200207161847.OAA07072@math.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Jul 2002 14:23:25 EDT." <20020716182325.874.qmail@f.bio.cse.psu.edu>
> | Including tuples (perhaps as an instance of nameless structs) would
> | simplify many interfaces, right? that's one thing I learned using
> | Limbo.
>
> Yeah, but limbo has bounds checked arrays, which are even more useful.
Has anyone ever wondered, ``why not just port limbo?'' Surely the
runtime environment provided by Dis can be emulated using a library.
Not in response to Scott's comment, but in general, I'm not a big fan
of changing C; C is what C is. If you want something else, use
something else, but don't try to morph C into another language.
- Dan C.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-16 18:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-16 16:08 [9fans] useful language extension, or no? rob pike, esq.
2002-07-16 15:31 ` Sam
2002-07-16 17:24 ` [9fans] more extensions FJ Ballesteros
2002-07-16 16:26 ` Sam
2002-07-16 17:28 ` Howard Trickey
2002-07-16 17:09 ` [9fans] New language? Sam
2002-07-17 5:45 ` GBA
2002-07-17 6:23 ` Lucio De Re
2002-07-16 18:23 ` [9fans] more extensions Scott Schwartz
2002-07-16 18:47 ` Dan Cross [this message]
2002-07-16 19:05 ` Jon Snader
2002-07-17 8:58 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-07-16 19:15 bwc
2002-07-16 19:46 ` Fariborz (Skip) Tavakkolian
2002-07-16 18:44 rob pike, esq.
2002-07-17 8:58 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
[not found] <nemo@gsyc.escet.urjc.es>
2001-10-09 6:25 ` [9fans] rewriting paths [was: mv vs cp] Fco.J.Ballesteros
2001-10-09 6:41 ` George Michaelson
2001-10-10 9:05 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-10-09 14:19 ` Richard
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