From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: "Steve Simon" Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 16:53:40 +0000 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] A newbie question... In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 44d67c78-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > The reason there is no native C++ compiler is because of it's *lack* of > popularity in the Plan 9 community, both historically and currently. "We don't need a C++ compiler because everything is written in C" is just a self-fulfilling prophecy. I would really like to be able to compile some large C++ apps and use, them. I have no interest in writing plan9 versions, the plan9 stuff is what I want to use them _for_, I just want some tools which happen to be written in C++. -Steve