9fans - fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "ozan s. yigit" <oz@abyss.sun.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Stack initialisation
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 15:36:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ya0o1yz6bw78.fsf@abyss.i-have-a-misconfigured-system-so-shoot-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200008301417.QAA12601@chuckle.iba.co.za>

lucio@proxima.alt.za writes:

> I accept that portability is critical, and that Bell Labs' efforts to
> provide a C thread library should not be dismissed lightly.  On the
> other hand, there's room for taste, and I hope I'm not the only one to
> believe that the elegance of Alef should not be entirely sacrificed on
> the altar of pragmatism.

looks like existing compiler cannot be distributed outside 2nd edition
licensees. are you going to reimplement alef? if you are going to spend
the time, why not re-implement limbo? at least that is a language
with some future use under other OSs as well.

alef is an island, elegant or not.

oz


  reply	other threads:[~2000-08-30 15:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-08-30 14:17 lucio
2000-08-30 15:36 ` ozan s. yigit [this message]
2000-08-30 16:12   ` Lucio De Re
2000-08-30 16:32     ` Boyd Roberts
2000-08-30 16:44       ` Lucio De Re
2000-08-30 16:59         ` Boyd Roberts
2000-08-30 17:06           ` Lucio De Re
2000-08-31  9:26         ` Elliott Hughes
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-08-31 10:25 lucio
2000-08-31  0:25 okamoto
2000-08-30 16:45 forsyth
2000-08-30 16:55 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-08-30 15:26 lucio
2000-08-30 14:35 forsyth
2000-08-30 13:45 rob pike
2000-08-30 13:44 rob pike
2000-08-30  6:14 okamoto
2000-08-30  6:23 ` Lucio De Re
2000-08-30  5:44 okamoto
2000-08-30  6:00 ` Lucio De Re
2000-08-29 22:08 forsyth
2000-08-30  5:19 ` Lucio De Re
2000-08-29 16:45 rob pike
2000-08-29 16:45 rob pike
2000-08-29 16:58 ` Lucio De Re
2000-08-29 14:30 Lucio De Re

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=ya0o1yz6bw78.fsf@abyss.i-have-a-misconfigured-system-so-shoot-me \
    --to=oz@abyss.sun.com \
    --cc=9fans@cse.psu.edu \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).