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Date: Sun,  4 May 2008 22:18:13 +1000
From: "Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] A new language for Plan 9
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I think the quote of the day was "We already support one C-like language".

brucee

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 5:57 PM,  <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote:
> > Just out of curiosity, why did alef die, or are some of you
> > still using it?
>
> A victim of rationalisation and reality: maintaining separate
> libraries for two languages is a luxury Plan 9 colud no longer afford,
> if I understood the rationale at the time.
>
> ++L