From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 13:42:35 -0500 From: quanstro@quanstro.net To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] gcc on plan9 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 649bae7c-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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