Re: [9fans] Re: Ruby port

["Aki Nyrhinen" <anyrhine@gmail.com>]

in my limited experience, converting programs that are
not excercises in how to use all the possible peculiarities
of posix are reasonably easy to get compiling under ape.

the problem is, nobody wants reasonably easy.

c++ would be very nice too, so there would be one step
less on the road towards firefox. i'm sure ron is more
interested in fortran90.

On Nov 12, 2007 9:39 PM, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
> > Fact is gcc is a de-facto standard
>
> I'm still trying to understand exactly what you mean by this.
>
> There was talk at one time about a gcc to kenc
> preprocessor, this wouldn't solve the C++ problem
> but would such a thing be worth attempting?
>
> Have the c99 additions to kenc made such a
> translator irrelevnt?
>
> Is the "problem" more the lack of g++ and perhaps
> glibc than the gcc C compiler itself or am I
> missing somthing.
>
> I'm not trolling, I want to know.
>
> -Steve
>