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From: dmr@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: alef compiler
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 20:07:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8e94adb3f1cf04d32b0bf61db015d62f@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)

 > I think making Limbo run on Unix is a lot more interesting than
 > making Alef run on Unix.  If anyone wants to try that, I'd be
 > happy to provide code and moral support.

In the last day or so, one dido@imperium.ph
sent a message to comp.compilers (mostly about
source-to-source translation, f2c and the like)
but mentioned in passing,

 > ... I'm at the moment writing a compiler for the Limbo
 > programming language and it seems I've learned almost as much of how
 > the language works as anyone at Vita Nuova or Bell Labs/Lucent seems to
 > know.  And I haven't actually written a single serious application in
 > Limbo yet...

He (or she) gave no further background.

	Dennis


             reply	other threads:[~2004-05-25  0:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-25  0:07 dmr [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-23 18:01 [9fans] " Matthew Swank
2004-05-24  6:58 ` [9fans] " Russ Cox
2004-05-24 18:01   ` Matthew Swank
2004-05-24 23:04   ` Latchesar Ionkov
2004-05-24 23:24     ` Russ Cox
2004-05-25  1:53     ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-24 23:35   ` Matthew Swank
2004-05-25  0:42     ` rog
2004-05-25 14:29       ` Jeff Sickel
2004-05-25 14:42         ` rog
2004-05-25 17:51           ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-25 17:56             ` Fco. J. Ballesteros

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