Re: [9fans] A newbie question...

[Greg Comeau <comeau@panix.com>]

In article <b11249e00802040347x3814b65cy96d3992b23c7b9b7@mail.gmail.com>,
Filipp Andronov <9fans@cse.psu.edu> wrote:
>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?

That's part of what Steve was saying.

And my question remains about gcc, either there is or there
isn't a port for Plan 9, but it seems clear to me that there
is one, so why do people keep saying not?  Or is it that for
some reason on the C language part is operational?

>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)?

Every language has problems.  Anyway, there should be no inherent
technical gotchas with C++ and Plan 9 that I know of, that is,
as compared with any other feasible/reasonable/etc OS.

>2008/2/4, Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>:
>> 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,  <mattmobile@proweb.co.uk> 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
>> >
>> >
>>


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