From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] New language?
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In-Reply-To: <3D35045E.1090000@cox.net>; from GBA on Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:45:02PM -0700
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 08:23:21 +0200
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On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:45:02PM -0700, GBA wrote:
> 
> Don't know much about Limbo, but have you seen this?
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/index.html
> 
What, no tuples?!

More seriously, I'm happy to work further on Alef, but I have long
ago accepted Bell Labs' view that maintaing the libraries is a
disaster.

I see the "D" people mention "versioning".  I'm insufficiently
knowledgeable to decide whether that is something I would appreciate
or despise.  I know NetBSD is hooked on it (in the sense that meat
hangs from hooks in refrigerators, sadly) because of their use of
dynamic libraries.

I guess that makes it a useful solution, if you can't get rid of
the problem in the first place.

++L