From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) In-Reply-To: <218917ef0711121339l65f11a7fx69ca20fe5fc44824@mail.gmail.com> References: <13426df10711121101p7f1677a2qcd4dc4f18222117d@mail.gmail.com> <218917ef0711121339l65f11a7fx69ca20fe5fc44824@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Pietro Gagliardi Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Ruby port Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:39:17 -0500 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: f44ebf04-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Nov 12, 2007, at 4:39 PM, Aki Nyrhinen wrote: > in my limited experience, converting programs that are > not excercises in how to use all the possible peculiarities > of posix are reasonably easy to get compiling under ape. > > the problem is, nobody wants reasonably easy. And yet everyone elsewhere wants easy. Did I step into another reality distortion field? > > c++ would be very nice too, so there would be one step > less on the road towards firefox. i'm sure ron is more > interested in fortran90. > People are working on it. In fact, someone said something about an update to the second edition C++ preprocessor a few days/weeks ago. Who uses Fortran 90? I haven't seen any F90 compiler in wide use; the FSF is still working with F77. Who said anything about Firefox? The guy that made abaco also ported the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine to Plan 9, perhaps we could build off of that? And how easy would it be to add a basic CSS?