From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Date: Fri,  4 Sep 2009 09:04:43 +0000
From: comeau@panix.com (Greg Comeau)
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Subject: Re: [9fans] "Blocks" in C
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In article <5d375e920909030832i17c62bc7mbb1afc55708e059a@mail.gmail.com>,
Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com> wrote:
>So libthread must be a figment of 9fan's imagination...
>
>Of course, for Apple (or anyone else) to learn from Plan 9 would be
>impossible, so instead they had to add a new 'feature' to C.

Apple, and many other companies, sure can be pompous often,
bringing even "the market chooses" to be rhetoric.
That said, I really can't say how true the above is in this case.
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