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From: Paul Lalonde <paul.a.lalonde@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] tcl, 9p
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 06:33:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+POUVgtk1mPVq33A0MUOrD2w2RJgYy20uVGQiZyMcM+20Q4dg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m018m8xhu8.ln2@news.homelinux.net>

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C is a low level language, not intermediate.

In the second decade of the 21st century is it too much to ask for garbage
collection and type safety?

Hmm.  I'm probably just feeding a troll.

Paul

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 2:05 AM, Balwinder S Dheeman <
bsd.SANSPAM@anu.homelinux.net> wrote:

> On 10/09/2011 08:04 AM, Russ Cox wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 8:02 PM, L N<leonardnemoi@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone know the state of the art of writing 9p clients/servers in tcl?
>>>
>>
>> I believe the state of the art is not to use tcl.  :-)
>> I'm having fun writing 9p clients in Go.
>>
>
> IMHO, That Go or Go-language thingy seems to be an overkill to me for that
> matter; that's just an opinion and opinions may differ.
>
> The best portable and efficient intermediate level language is C and I hope
> it will remain a 'lingua franca' for computer programmers for years to come
> ;)
>
> --
> Balwinder S "bdheeman" Dheeman
> (http://werc.homelinux.net/**contact/ <http://werc.homelinux.net/contact/>
> )
>
>


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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-10 13:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-09  0:02 L N
2011-10-09  2:31 ` Russ Cox
2011-10-09  3:20   ` L N
2011-10-09  3:30     ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2011-10-10  9:05   ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2011-10-10 13:33     ` Paul Lalonde [this message]
2011-10-10 13:51       ` simon softnet
2011-10-10 16:57         ` Wes Kussmaul
2011-10-11  7:50           ` hiro
2011-10-11  8:34             ` L N
     [not found]       ` <CAFUsep0WRifUREf=BuX2hMT85g46pObH-3Q6XFcf82ONOGTeEw@mail.gmail.c>
2011-10-10 21:16         ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-26 16:45       ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2011-10-09  5:21 ` ron minnich
2011-10-09  6:15   ` pmarin
     [not found]   ` <CAOe8CcYL4J5Uu4MSwpT8bO=4LC7omJ84FDkRy=ZXzq8wNH5iWg@mail.gmail.c>
2011-10-09 13:12     ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-09 17:24       ` simon softnet
2011-10-09 23:05         ` Nick LaForge
2011-10-27  7:46 ` Axel Belinfante
2011-10-10 20:55 Winston Kodogo

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