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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:06:15 -0700
From: Geoffrey Avila <avlg@sdsc.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] interesting potential targets for plan 9 and/or inferno
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>
> PS: I think Plan 9's biggest "mistake" was to drop Alef where it
> should have become the _only_ development language.  I know this is
> absolute pie-in-the-sky and I accept without qualification the
> motivation for dropping Alef.  But a lot of discussion would have been
> avoided if there wasn't so much C code out there waiting to be

So like Cortez, you burn your ships behind you. That would remove the
temptation to move ill-considered software over. Isn't the fact that 8c
isn't bug-compatible with gcc obstacle enough? :)

However, it isn't like there's pressure to maintain legacy applications...

-GBA