From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Tolpin Message-Id: <200403012112.i21LCX5E068637@adat.davidashen.net> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Threads: Sewing badges of honor onto a Kernel In-Reply-To: <20040301210719.B10993@edinburgh.cisco.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 01:12:33 +0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 08a04fc8-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:43:01PM +0400, David Tolpin wrote: > > Yes, I have Inferno installed under FreeBSD. The problem with limbo > > for me is that it is much more 'a box in a box' than Java. > > But wasn't that supposed to be the aim of Java? An identical virtual > machine running on all systems, such that code could be written once? > > At least in concept, then inferno/limbo would seem to be "java done right". Java is done right in concept. In reality, inferno is no more right than Java. Unfortunately. I can do system programming and command-line apps with Java. How am I supposed with Inferno on FreeBSD to do that? David