From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <5d375e920802040501s7d20988j7f2c21ed5ca1b7a8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:01:49 +0200 From: Uriel To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: Re: [9fans] A newbie question... In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1524b09a1c4f22ed2b2b7541c29a0463@9grid.es> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 43ef2102-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 2008/2/4 Filipp Andronov : > > Reading 9fans mail list archives you will notice C++ and the "object oriented model" is not > much appreciated, there are a lot of references (including great fortunes entries) about this > topic. > Yeah, i have notice that, but from my point of view, there are very > many software where object oriented model is perfect way. GUI toolkit > for example, or file system. I didn't see Plan9 file systems sources > yet, but linux VFS object oriented and some proprietary database vfs, > that i have seen are also object oriented. In fact all this stuff was > written in C, where you have pointers to functions in structures, but > it would be much simple to develop it with full OO support. If you want roman numerals, you know where to find them... > > probably you could say plan9 is not "typical" in this aspect. > I mean that when you get some operation system and then you are notice > that it has no C++ (or even worse, C) environment the first filing is > shock :)) Inferno... and I hope the shock will send you all the way to the 9fans archives rather than repeating the same path that has been trodden a billion times before. > To say the truth, when i've heard about Plan9 at first time, i have > expect meetings with GCC and it was realy shock for me to see new C > compile and no C++ support. > Now i'm understand that it was stupid, but first feeling...No IDE for > development, no C++ support, no GCC environment, no autotools...It is > not bad at all, but it was suddenly :) Some 20 years 'suddenly'... uriel