On 6/9/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
Yeah I actually don't think that's a silly question at all.
