Re: [9fans] why not Lvx for Plan 9?

["LiteStar numnums" <litestar@gmail.com>]

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x: proc options(main);
 put skip list('What's Wrong with PR1ME?');
 put skip;
end x;
/* sorry, couldn't resist */
I mean, you make it sound like the wonderful combination of Fortran IV, PL/I
(PL/1G, PL/P & SPL), Pascal & BASIC (BASICV too) weren't enough!
Sheesh, this is perfectly resonable:
OK, plp B_test0.pli
[PLP rev 19.2]
BEGIN PHASE-1
BEGIN PHASE-3
0001 ERRORS  (PL/P  rev 19.2)
MAXIMUM ERROR SEVERITY LEVEL=3
TRANSLATION FAILED.
ER,

Ok, ok, I'll stop. Honest.
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
wrote:

> > Think of 9vx and lguest and friends as "software tools". "Software
> > tools" did a lot to popularize the ideas of Unix, and made it easier
> > for people to consider using the real thing.
>
> yes, but that was when the underlying system was System 370, VMS, PRIME,
> GCOS, ...
> which didn't do all that much for you.  now the underlying system has all
> the fun.
> (unless you need to program it.)
>
>
>


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