From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3e1162e60807301636h53149a9du80385a3e42a1a01a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:36:20 -0700 From: "David Leimbach" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_76665_2270631.1217460980965" References: <488B6EE7.3080100@mtu.edu> <1217421120.5036.34.camel@goose.sun.com> <13426df10807300810s4d854612ib7597a9463f7f02f@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on Blue Gene Topicbox-Message-UUID: f7633f7a-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 ------=_Part_76665_2270631.1217460980965 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:25 AM, wrote: > > > > i'm asking from a technical point of view, i suppose dealing with the > current users and customers is the real issue, right? > > > > and tens of millions of lines of fortran that no one understands > anymore.... > > Its not that we aren't promoting other paradigms, its just we also > need to be able to support existing code bases. > > -eric > So is there any traction to use the new platform, or is it mostly just people running their familiar apps and writing new apps for their familiar programming environment? Dave ------=_Part_76665_2270631.1217460980965 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline


On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:25 AM,  <gdiaz@9grid.es> wrote:
>
> i'm asking from a technical point of view, i suppose dealing with the current users and customers is the real issue, right?
>

and tens of millions of lines of fortran that no one understands anymore....

Its not that we aren't promoting other paradigms, its just we also
need to be able to support existing code bases.

       -eric

So is there any traction to use the new platform, or is it mostly just people running their familiar apps and writing new apps for their familiar programming environment?

Dave

------=_Part_76665_2270631.1217460980965--