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Subject: Re: [9fans] Modern development language for Plan 9,
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 On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 05:14:54 +0000, smiley@zenzebra.mv.com wrote:

> Can Libmo be compiled to native machine code?
>
> There was some mention that, during the history of Plan 9, developers
> had difficulty maintaining two different languages on the system.  I
> wonder how much of that difficulty would still apply today.  Although
> the kernel could concievably be translated to a modern compiled
> language, I doubt it could be written in Go.  If Go were used, then,
> there would still have to be two languages/compilers/development
> environments on the system.

 along those lines, can a Libmo byte code be used as an intermediate
 language and be compiles/assembled into machine code instead of
 interpreted?

   EBo --