From: quanstro@quanstro.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] gcc on plan9
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 13:42:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dfe84bfff80565c7ad86891f035cd5c5@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ae2c2f5c96d9bc5183f08039824a1ffc@proxima.alt.za>
On Fri Jun 9 12:25:53 CDT 2006, lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote:
> > 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.
silly question: why wasn't c dropped in favor of aleph?
- erik
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2006-06-08 7:08 cej
2006-06-08 9:18 ` quanstro
2006-06-08 11:58 ` rog
2006-06-09 4:20 ` quanstro
2006-06-08 17:20 ` Corey
2006-06-09 4:00 ` quanstro
2006-06-09 12:40 ` Corey
2006-06-09 13:15 ` quanstro
2006-06-09 15:10 ` Corey
2006-06-09 15:27 ` C H Forsyth
2006-06-09 15:39 ` David Leimbach
2006-06-09 15:37 ` quanstro
2006-06-09 14:52 ` lucio
2006-06-09 18:42 ` quanstro [this message]
2006-06-09 21:12 ` David Leimbach
2006-06-10 5:28 ` lucio
2006-06-10 1:36 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-06-10 16:32 ` David Leimbach
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-06-08 7:24 cej
2006-06-07 17:58 Corey
2006-06-07 18:24 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-06-07 18:50 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-07 18:55 ` William Josephson
2006-06-07 20:12 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-07 20:20 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-06-07 20:42 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-07 20:44 ` William Josephson
2006-06-07 21:00 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-07 19:05 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-06-07 20:13 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-07 20:48 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-06-07 21:04 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-08 6:42 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2006-06-08 7:00 ` Iruatã Souza (muzgo)
2006-06-07 19:48 ` Corey
2006-06-07 20:16 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-07 20:26 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-06-07 20:43 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-08 5:49 ` lucio
2006-06-07 18:57 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-06-07 19:55 ` Corey
2006-06-07 20:46 ` rog
2006-06-07 21:07 ` Corey
2006-06-07 21:16 ` Christoph Lohmann
2006-06-07 21:25 ` Rodolfo (kix)
2006-06-07 21:50 ` Corey
2006-06-07 21:54 ` David Leimbach
2006-06-07 21:56 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-07 22:06 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2006-06-07 22:16 ` David Leimbach
2006-06-07 22:31 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-06-07 22:33 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-08 9:44 ` Victor Nazarov
2006-06-09 21:13 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-06-08 1:28 ` quanstro
2006-06-09 13:12 ` Lluís Batlle
2006-06-09 13:21 ` quanstro
2006-06-09 13:47 ` Lluís Batlle
2006-06-07 23:04 ` geoff
2006-06-07 23:10 ` Steve Simon
2006-06-08 0:22 ` Bakul Shah
2006-06-08 0:27 ` geoff
2006-06-08 3:31 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-08 15:04 ` David Leimbach
2006-06-08 15:20 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-07 23:15 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-06-08 0:17 ` geoff
2006-06-09 21:15 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-06-09 21:26 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-06-09 21:27 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-06-09 21:34 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-06-09 21:38 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-06-09 21:44 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-06-10 6:57 ` "Nils O. Selåsdal"
2006-06-08 1:58 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2006-06-08 0:53 ` geoff
2006-06-08 1:07 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2006-06-08 1:15 ` quanstro
2006-06-08 15:02 ` David Leimbach
2006-06-09 4:04 ` quanstro
2006-06-08 1:22 ` geoff
2006-06-08 1:25 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2006-06-09 21:21 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-06-09 21:27 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-06-08 14:59 ` David Leimbach
2006-06-09 4:05 ` quanstro
2006-06-08 1:49 ` Ignacio Torres Masdeu
2006-06-08 14:10 ` David Leimbach
2006-06-09 4:09 ` quanstro
2006-06-09 5:25 ` David Leimbach
2006-06-07 22:39 ` Corey
2006-06-07 22:49 ` Paul Lalonde
2006-06-07 23:17 ` Corey
2006-06-07 23:37 ` Paul Lalonde
2006-06-08 0:50 ` quanstro
2006-06-08 1:16 ` John Barham
2006-06-08 14:51 ` David Leimbach
2006-06-09 4:49 ` ems
2006-06-09 12:07 ` quanstro
2006-06-09 19:17 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-06-09 21:27 ` Bakul Shah
2006-06-09 21:33 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-06-09 21:39 ` quanstro
2006-06-09 21:56 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-06-09 22:01 ` quanstro
2006-06-09 22:17 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-06-09 22:35 ` quanstro
2006-06-09 22:22 ` Bakul Shah
2006-06-09 22:30 ` quanstro
2006-06-09 23:22 ` Bakul Shah
2006-06-10 13:51 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-06-10 23:21 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-11 0:07 ` LiteStar numnums
2006-06-10 0:00 ` Harri Haataja
2006-06-10 0:03 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-06-10 1:00 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-06-10 4:37 ` Iruatã Souza (muzgo)
2006-06-12 0:35 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2006-06-09 21:43 ` quanstro
2006-06-10 12:43 ` rog
2006-06-07 22:56 ` Christoph Lohmann
2006-06-07 23:08 ` Dan Cross
2006-06-07 23:32 ` Federico G. Benavento
2006-06-07 23:48 ` Dan Cross
2006-06-08 0:32 ` Corey
2006-06-08 1:04 ` jmk
2006-06-08 3:35 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-08 3:51 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-08 4:07 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2006-06-08 5:19 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-08 6:07 ` Federico G. Benavento
2006-06-08 17:45 ` Micah Stetson
2006-06-08 18:54 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-08 18:55 ` Iruatã Souza (muzgo)
2006-06-08 18:56 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-06-08 19:01 ` Iruatã Souza (muzgo)
2006-06-09 19:56 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-06-09 22:19 ` quanstro
2006-06-09 23:19 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-08 4:11 ` Paul Lalonde
2006-06-08 5:25 ` ems
2006-06-08 5:43 ` Simon Williams
2006-06-08 6:09 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-06-08 1:06 ` geoff
2006-06-08 1:21 ` quanstro
2006-06-08 10:15 ` Victor Nazarov
2006-06-08 9:40 ` Lluís Batlle
2006-06-08 15:55 ` Corey
2006-06-08 22:48 ` Fred Wade
2006-06-08 23:08 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-06-08 23:51 ` Corey
2006-06-07 20:46 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2006-06-07 19:07 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-06-07 19:17 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2006-06-07 19:26 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-06-07 19:35 ` Brantley Coile
2006-06-07 20:15 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-07 20:32 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-06-07 19:47 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2006-06-07 20:00 ` Corey
2006-06-07 20:13 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-06-07 20:40 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-08 6:49 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2006-06-07 21:21 ` Christoph Lohmann
2006-06-07 21:49 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-07 22:50 ` Dan Cross
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