From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:51:33 +0200 Message-ID: From: simon softnet To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] tcl, 9p Topicbox-Message-UUID: 35b20a7e-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 It's not necessary that you're feeding a troll, in my opinion. I actually agree with the idea that C is enough. I don't understand why you need garbage collection ... why do you need to have garbage in the first place? Just because time goes by does not mean everything should keep on changing you know. People have to understand that certain technologies can just stay as they are, if they work well. Simon On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Paul Lalonde wr= ote: > C is a low level language, not intermediate. > In the second decade of the 21st century is it too much to ask for garbag= e > collection and type safety? > Hmm. =A0I'm probably just feeding a troll. > Paul > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 2:05 AM, Balwinder S Dheeman > wrote: >> >> On 10/09/2011 08:04 AM, Russ Cox wrote: >>> >>> On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 8:02 PM, L N =A0wrote: >>>> >>>> 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. =A0:-) >>> I'm having fun writing 9p clients in Go. >> >> IMHO, That Go or Go-language thingy seems to be an overkill to me for th= at >> 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/) >> > > > > -- > I'm migrating my email. =A0plalonde@telus.net will soon be disconnected. > =A0Please use paul.a.lalonde@gmail.com from now on. > >