From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <47A73274.1090305@proweb.co.uk> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:42:44 +0000 From: Alf User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.14pre (X11/20071018) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] A newbie question... References: <942D796B-FE26-43C3-A818-F5797DCB7CD4@mac.com> <824de59a4b242b73662cf1ae2b2cbcc2@quintile.net> <47A6EE79.4070009@proweb.co.uk> <5d375e920802040312y3b8129aevd76109aad2c56acc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 44a5bdf4-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hi, > if we > couldn't port GCC because it very big job (any other reason?), maybe > we could port some other compiler with liberal enough licence? > > If you (not *we*) want to port something port it and let us know when it's done. The process goes like this : "I've done some working code for my XXXX C++ port, it's in my contrib directory if someone wants to have a go with it" > I'm asking because C++ is very popular language, This is Plan 9, popularity isn't very high on the list. The reason there is no native C++ compiler is because of it's *lack* of popularity in the Plan 9 community, both historically and currently. The pattern of "I've just downloaded Plan9 and I want my old tools" is very common and we just kind of ignore them :) except for the anti-GNU troll responses. You'll (eventually) notice that *most* of the long time Plan 9 users don't even join in the discussion, no doubt smiling a "seen it all before" smile before pressing Del