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From: David Presotto <presotto@closedmind.org>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] g++
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Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 16:38:53 -0400
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On Sun Sep 14 16:32:39 EDT 2003, boyd@insultant.net wrote:
> > | how did we get here?
> >
> > Smart guys at Bell Labs produced an efficient OO language, and spread
> > it around widely, and no one else managed to produce an effective
> > (comfortable, usable, efficient) alternative.
>
> so why isn't plan 9 coded in C++?
>
Because we weren't anywhere near smart enough to build a working
kernel in C++.