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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Wed,  2 Feb 2011 07:54:52 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Modern development language for Plan 9,
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> There was some mention that, during the history of Plan 9, developers
> had difficulty maintaining two different languages on the system.  I
> wonder how much of that difficulty would still apply today.  Although
> the kernel could concievably be translated to a modern compiled
> language, I doubt it could be written in Go.  If Go were used, then,
> there would still have to be two languages/compilers/development
> environments on the system.

although the proof is in the putting, i don't see why a kernel
in principle, can't be written in go, or a slightly restricted subset
of go.

- erik