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Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 09:03:10 -0400
From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] how low can you limbo?
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On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 07:24:40PM -0700, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
> where's limboscript?!
> 
> ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/tr/TR-2006-50.pdf
> http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2006/05/scheme-implementation-in-javascript.html

That's nothing.  If you want to see something truly awful, look at what
the FreeBSD people are doing as one of their, `summer of code' projects:
_K: The Kernel Metalanguage_.

>>From the blurb:
Kernel meta-language: Develop a dialect of the C language that
simplifies the task of writing kernel code. It should include language
extensions that make it possible to write kernel code more cleanly and
with less bugs. An example of this would have language support for
linked lists, to obviate the need for messy MACROs. George V.
Neville-Neil and Poul-Henning Kamp are coordinating.

http://wikitest.freebsd.org/K

This paper that the reference, from Berkeley:
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~zf/papers/ivy-hotos05.pdf
doesn't mention limbo at all (or Cyclone).

Nor do the other references (though they do mention Singularity, from MS
research).

It's like a complexity bomb went off inside these guys' heads.

	- Dan C.