From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,dea6cc4846547f8e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!cyclone.bc.net!news.uunet.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [OT] Systems Software Research is Irrelevant References: <10m5so1end9a849@news.supernews.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <43V8d.12374$HO1.866275@news20.bellglobal.com> Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 12:30:27 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1097080128 198.96.223.163 (Wed, 06 Oct 2004 12:28:48 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 12:28:48 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4807 Date: 2004-10-06T12:30:27-04:00 List-Id: Georg Bauhaus wrote: > Chris Humphries wrote: > : Systems Software Research is Irrelevant > : by Rob Pike of Bell Laboratories > > [... ] > : It is an interesting read :) > > And Plan 9 is an interesting experience. I wish those who > write Windows programs (or bindings) would have had this > experience :) > -- Georg I have Plan 9 on my "to do" list, but one of the things that puts me off is that likelyhood of no GNAT compiler. Does anyone know if there has been a plan 9 porting effort of GNAT? If there was, plan 9's priority on my to do list would certainly change ;-) -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg