From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3e1162e60711121633i3bc182e1g7facf693b9da7309@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:33:09 -0800 From: "David Leimbach" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Ruby port In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <13426df10711121101p7f1677a2qcd4dc4f18222117d@mail.gmail.com> <218917ef0711121339l65f11a7fx69ca20fe5fc44824@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: f5258930-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Nov 12, 2007 2:39 PM, Pietro Gagliardi wrote: > On Nov 12, 2007, at 4:39 PM, Aki Nyrhinen wrote: > > > 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. > > And yet everyone elsewhere wants easy. Did I step into another > reality distortion field? > > > > > 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. > > > > People are working on it. In fact, someone said something about an > update to the second edition C++ preprocessor a few days/weeks ago. > Who uses Fortran 90? I haven't seen any F90 compiler in wide use; the > FSF is still working with F77. > I'm pretty sure gfortran does F90...