> Again, my mistake - I accidently crossed-wires by mentioning c99; when the > point I was trying make was to draw the parralel/similarity between C and > libc, > and Obj-C and GNUstep ( or FoundationKit, or whatever ).
Fact is, Plan 9 had a very promising new language called Alef, but it was preferable to drop it: the alternative was to spend unreasonable amounts of effort to keep the compiler and libraries compatible with newer releases of the operating system. I got to understand that bit pretty well when I attempted to port it to the newer platform. I doubt that the resources could more readily become available to support a language suite that, I assume, is larger than Alef's. ++L PS: The web site is not well maintained, but a version of the compiler that interoperated with early versions of Plan 9 fourth edition is available from <http://www.proxima.alt.za/plan9/> Of course, Limbo is Alef's true heir.
