On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 4:54 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>wrote:

> > There was some mention that, during the history of Plan 9, developers
> > had difficulty maintaining two different languages on the system.  I
> > wonder how much of that difficulty would still apply today.  Although
> > the kernel could concievably be translated to a modern compiled
> > language, I doubt it could be written in Go.  If Go were used, then,
> > there would still have to be two languages/compilers/development
> > environments on the system.
>
> although the proof is in the putting, i don't see why a kernel
> in principle, can't be written in go, or a slightly restricted subset
> of go.
>

Wait, isn't it "the proof is in the *pudding*"?  YOU MEAN WE DON'T GET
FRENCH BENEFITS!?!


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> - erik
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