On Fri Jun 9 12:25:53 CDT 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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.
silly question: why wasn't c dropped in favor of aleph? - erik
