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Subject: Re: [9fans] speaking of kenc
From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:17:59 +0200
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> No, but you're not going to like the reason. AFAIK nobody misses it,
> because there may not be a single HPC app in widespread use that could
> be run on Plan 9 today. We've been looking. Roman knows more than I do
> on this issue.

But the question would be whether those applications do use complex
types and thus adding them to KenCC would bring them closer to porting
to Plan 9.  At least, that seems a legitimate question.

Or are you saying that no HPC app comes even remotely close to being
portable?

++L