[9fans] Is this the same Russ Cox we know here?

Joseph Stewart

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Nov 10, 2009, 7:58:34 PM11/10/09

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Hmmm... is this Limbo/Newsqueak/Alef inspired?

http://golang.org

-joe

erik quanstrom

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Nov 10, 2009, 8:06:35 PM11/10/09

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On Tue Nov 10 20:02:34 EST 2009, mirtc...@gmail.com wrote:
> but will it run on Plan 9?

would the authors care to contrast go with limbo?

- erik

andrey mirtchovski

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Nov 10, 2009, 8:04:58 PM11/10/09

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Dan Cross

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Nov 10, 2009, 8:10:09 PM11/10/09

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Yes.

Rodrigo Miranda

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Nov 10, 2009, 8:14:11 PM11/10/09

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On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:00 PM, andrey mirtchovski
<mirtc...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> but will it run on Plan 9?
>

From the FAQ:
(http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html)

"What compiler technology is used to build the compilers?

Gccgo has a C++ front-end with a recursive descent parser coupled to
the standard GCC back end. Gc is written in C using yacc/bison for the
parser. Although it's a new program, it fits in the Plan 9 C compiler
suite (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/compiler.html) and uses a
variant of the Plan 9 loader to generate ELF binaries."

So I believe it could be ported...
As for a comparison to limbo, I think someone who knows more about
limbo would be better qualified to delve into the language, but for
one thing it isn't tied to Inferno, and compiles natively, as opposed
to dis.
(it also has some limited type inference)

--
Rodrigo Miranda

"There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something… You
certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always
quite the something you were after." – J.R.R Tolkien

Dan Cross

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Nov 10, 2009, 8:18:07 PM11/10/09

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Not yet. There's an 8g, so it should (in principle) be portable. But
it requires user-mode support for setting LDTs. But I'm really not
any sort of expert at all, just an interested observer. Maybe Rob or
Russ will poke in and say something.