On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 4:54 AM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net>wrote:
> > There was some mention that, during the history of Plan 9, developers > > had difficulty maintaining two different languages on the system. I > > wonder how much of that difficulty would still apply today. Although > > the kernel could concievably be translated to a modern compiled > > language, I doubt it could be written in Go. If Go were used, then, > > there would still have to be two languages/compilers/development > > environments on the system. > > although the proof is in the putting, i don't see why a kernel > in principle, can't be written in go, or a slightly restricted subset > of go. > Wait, isn't it "the proof is in the *pudding*"? YOU MEAN WE DON'T GET FRENCH BENEFITS!?! > > - erik > >
