From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Message-ID: <8e94adb3f1cf04d32b0bf61db015d62f@plan9.bell-labs.com>
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 20:07:30 -0400
From: dmr@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: alef compiler
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Topicbox-Message-UUID: 877c3a28-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025

 > 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