From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 14:47:34 +0300 From: "Filipp Andronov" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] A newbie question... In-Reply-To: <5d375e920802040312y3b8129aevd76109aad2c56acc@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <942D796B-FE26-43C3-A818-F5797DCB7CD4@mac.com> <824de59a4b242b73662cf1ae2b2cbcc2@quintile.net> <47A6EE79.4070009@proweb.co.uk> <5d375e920802040312y3b8129aevd76109aad2c56acc@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 43955a3c-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hmmm, may i ask a very stupid question? :) I have working with GCC C++ compiler and MS C++ compiler, and i suppose that there are another compilers in the world... But i don't known any other free compiler (yeah, MS compiler is not free, but in russia all MS software IS free :D). So question is, if we couldn't port GCC because it very big job (any other reason?), maybe we could port some other compiler with liberal enough licence? I'm asking because C++ is very popular language, it have some nice benefits (is that word right here?), and there are many software that was developed on it. Of course C++ could be very ugly in some situations, but Object Oriented model is very powerful and C++ is "standard" language for it. So modern operation system with out C++ support is something...unusual (i don't know right word in english, that describe what i want to say :D)? 2008/2/4, Uriel : > And when you thought it couldn't get better, from the top of > http://www.comeaucomputing.com > > "Bursting With So Much Language Support It Hurts!" > > Most fortune-worthy line ever. > > uriel > > On Feb 4, 2008 12:52 PM, wrote: > > > because something had to be used to compile Plan 9 itself, etc and I > > figure it's not being done as a cross-compiler. > > > > I'm sorry my new friend but I think that's the funniest 9fans post I've > > ever seen, how ... but .... surely you ..... aw come on > > > > To redeem myself I shall offer this link to one of the other C compilers > > that exist in the world : > > http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/1/2c > > > > >