From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 15:36:55 +0000
From: "ozan s. yigit" <oz@abyss.sun.com>
Message-ID: <ya0o1yz6bw78.fsf@abyss.i-have-a-misconfigured-system-so-shoot-me>
References: <200008301417.QAA12601@chuckle.iba.co.za>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Stack initialisation
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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