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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Systems Software Research is Irrelevant
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Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt> wrote:
: Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:
:> 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.
: 
: You just described my position :-)

I think you might be impressed with how you operate the system, even
when not using a compiler at all. It's a different perspective,
it looks and feels different. A valuable source of ideas I think.
(There are some programming languages, including a cleaned up and
extended C, aleph, some functional languages, ...)


-- Georg