On Thursday 08 June 2006 21:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu Jun 8 12:23:51 CDT 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thursday 08 June 2006 00:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > IMHO, I don't see any advantage in having gnustep/openstep/nextstep > > > stuff (except, maybe, displayPS/PDF), on Plan9. > > > > C has something called a Standard Library, it provides lots of useful > > things when programming in C. > > > > Imagine how outlandish it would sound if you said that you "don't see > > any advantage in having C99 stuff on Plan 9"? > > this doesn't make any sense to me. >
Whoops, understandable! - I typed "C99", when I meant "libc". > while kenc supports most c99, some c99 > bits were excluded on purpose. can you name a specific c99 bit and explain > why it's inclusion in plan9 would make plan 9 better? > 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 ). To flog the proverbally dead horse - if one were toying with the idea of objc-c on Plan 9, it is logical that one would also desire to - of course! - have some form of complementary, functionality-enhancing and/or convienience libraries to better fulfill the usefulness of the obj-c language itself; and that bringing, say, the GNUstep _core_ Libraries ( not a plethora of userland apps! ), will not somehow cause the kitchen sink of nasty GNU/Linux practices to get pulled in along with it. I think what happened here, is that, when I said "GNUstep", people heard: "X11", 'nuff said. I don't want X11 on Plan 9; and I don't want Linux on Plan 9. I don't even necessarily want "GNU" on Plan 9 ( although I'm not downright hostile to GNU, as -seems- to be the general consensus here on 9fans!, heheh ). I'd just like to use this space to thank everyone's patience, and to apologize if I managed to inadvertently ruffle-feathers or cause annoyance - I hope it can be seen that I'm being sincere, and that I do appreciate the opportunity to risk bouncing some semi half-baked ideas off the experts and professionals here on this list in a friendly manner; as I've mentioned before, quite honestly: I'm merely a hobbyist and OS enthusiast. An extremely interesting platform such as Plan 9 is _bound_ to occasionally draw the attention of folks like myself. Cheers, Corey
