From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 16:08:31 -0700 From: Roman Shaposhnick To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] gcc on plan9 Message-ID: <20060608230831.GC1125@submarine> References: <200606071058.35174.corey_s@qwest.net> <8ccc8ba40606071157r4222175fmf1834f3e45698cef@mail.gmail.com> <200606071255.16119.corey_s@qwest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200606071255.16119.corey_s@qwest.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6263e6ce-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 12:55:16PM -0700, Corey wrote: > On Wednesday 07 June 2006 11:57, Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: > > Plan9 is spartan and lean, and also very effective. > > very much like UNIX was. > > > > I like that about plan 9, and I'm very much an advocate of spartan and lean, > as well as focused and well-integrated/holistic. > > Objective-C and the base GNUstep library/framework very much themselves > contain those same attributes: light, efficient, lean. Conceptually, I think > obj-c/gnustep running on plan 9 would be pretty enticing. Speaking about Objective-C, why don't you consider ObjC -> C compilers like this one: http://users.pandora.be/stes/compiler.html. For your project is sounds like a pretty good approach, especially since it plays nice with the underlying system (e.g. generates C code which can later be given to our beloved KenC). Thanks, Roman.