From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <6e35c0620604032028s464d22b4m9989d88ba4d8a1a1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 19:28:41 -0800 From: "Jack Johnson" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] new compilers In-Reply-To: <6104d1669942e762ba6bd4ab80bfca37@cat-v.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <6e35c0620604031341k3effda87i762a2cc511bdbb82@mail.gmail.com> <6104d1669942e762ba6bd4ab80bfca37@cat-v.org> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2e4f1d22-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 4/3/06, uriel@cat-v.org wrote: > I would rather ask: So, are you saying you have no opinion, or would you rather not share it? You might as well have asked what's wrong with Ford that BMW didn't fix? I have no opinion--no experience with it--which is why I'm asking.=20 I'm not out to berate someone else's choice. And, not to belittle Limbo, but one motivation for creating Objective-C was to avoid Smalltalk's VM. So, if you really believe Limbo in some way fixed C, are you also implying that avoiding the VM in Objective-C was a poor design choice? -Jack