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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:44:29 +0200
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> Why has it been so dificult to port GNULand to Plan 9 but not the other way
> arround?

That is the fundamental question: portability is in the "wrong"
direction.  Plan 9 code is clean and platform independent, GNU code
isn't: it is heavily biased in favour of GCC and is positively riddled
with platform dependencies.

Oh, C++ has much to do with it too.

++L