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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] building Alef language
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You need a license to run the 1st and 2nd ed.

The 2nd ed books/cds (and thus the license) have not been printed for a long=
 time.

the images may have leaked but i think we should still try to respect the te=
rms of the license.

-Steve


> On 23 Sep 2019, at 2:01 am, Sean Hinchee <henesy.dev@gmail.com> wrote:
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> You could also just run 2e in a VM and show it off there :)
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> 2e can be coaxed into running under virtualbox, even.
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> Cheers,
> Sean
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>> On 9/22/19 12:46 AM, Phil Kulin wrote:
>> You right. I am preparing slides for my report on upcoming
>> GolangConf-2019 in Moscow. I need Alef, libthread and Limbo for
>> explaining some golang features.
>>> On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 6:16 AM Lucio De Re <lucio.dere@gmail.com> wrote=
:
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>>> I have a version for legacy Plan 9, lightly tested, that I have not
>>> looked at in ages.
>>>=20
>>> Happy to haul it out, but I see little value in it. Go may have
>>> idiosyncrasies, but it is much more suited to modern architectures.
>>> That said, had Go not surfaced, I would have much preferred Alef to
>>> many other options.
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>>> Don't forget the rationale for dropping Alef: support for the
>>> language, across many architectures and including many libraries would
>>> have been crippling.
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>>> Both of those are now Go's strong suits.
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>>> Lucio.
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>>> PS: A tar archive may be on sources under "proxima" - it's been a long t=
ime.
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