> > PS: I think Plan 9's biggest "mistake" was to drop Alef where it > should have become the _only_ development language. I know this is > absolute pie-in-the-sky and I accept without qualification the > motivation for dropping Alef. But a lot of discussion would have been > avoided if there wasn't so much C code out there waiting to be
So like Cortez, you burn your ships behind you. That would remove the temptation to move ill-considered software over. Isn't the fact that 8c isn't bug-compatible with gcc obstacle enough? :) However, it isn't like there's pressure to maintain legacy applications... -GBA
