From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] gcc on plan9 In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 08 Jun 2006 00:10:26 BST." From: Bakul Shah Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 17:22:20 -0700 Message-Id: <20060608002220.BC644294C1@mail.bitblocks.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5e6866b2-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > > ... if only we had a Cfront for current > > C++. > > Many people have told me that cfront is just not up to the job, > but can somone take the time to elaborate? What is it about > modern C++ that makes cfront unusable? I can believe it has > been left behind but could it not be given some help to catch up? Templates are the biggest change but the C++ standard defines a much larger language than what cfront implements. Starting from scratch may be cleaner and faster but who'd do it.