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Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:36:11 -0500
From: "Eric Van Hensbergen" <ericvh@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on Blue Gene
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On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:25 AM,  <gdiaz@9grid.es> wrote:
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> i'm asking from a technical point of view, i suppose dealing with the current users and customers is the real issue, right?
>

and tens of millions of lines of fortran that no one understands anymore....

Its not that we aren't promoting other paradigms, its just we also
need to be able to support existing code bases.

        -eric