From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lucio De Re To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Plan9 - Should I try it? Message-ID: <20030613110853.I7499@cackle.proxima.alt.za> References: <3EE8B56B.F01BC5B4@null.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from Charles Forsyth on Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 10:00:41AM +0100 Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 11:08:53 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: ca3ba350-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 10:00:41AM +0100, Charles Forsyth wrote: > > God forbid: it's nothing like Java's way. > all right, they both use virtual machines but so did UCSD Pascal > and the similarity ends about there, partly because > Inferno's designers thought about it first. > and that's the hard part. The comparison is unavoidable, no matter the differences. Fortunately, the paper that addresses the comparison, dated as it is, does tell the truth. What's the URL? ++L