From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] gcc on plan9 Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 16:52:41 +0200 From: lucio@proxima.alt.za In-Reply-To: <200606090540.05841.corey_s@qwest.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6492bd26-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Again, my mistake - I accidently crossed-wires by mentioning c99; when the > point I was trying make was to draw the parralel/similarity between C and libc, > and Obj-C and GNUstep ( or FoundationKit, or whatever ). Fact is, Plan 9 had a very promising new language called Alef, but it was preferable to drop it: the alternative was to spend unreasonable amounts of effort to keep the compiler and libraries compatible with newer releases of the operating system. I got to understand that bit pretty well when I attempted to port it to the newer platform. I doubt that the resources could more readily become available to support a language suite that, I assume, is larger than Alef's. ++L PS: The web site is not well maintained, but a version of the compiler that interoperated with early versions of Plan 9 fourth edition is available from Of course, Limbo is Alef's true heir.