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Interesting trivia about the connection to plan9 the operating system. >Go uses its own internal assembly language called Plan9. Plan9 is the name of the OS.
by colechristensen 2y ago
Interesting trivia about the connection to plan9 the operating system.
>Go uses its own internal assembly language called Plan9.
Plan9 is the name of the OS. You wouldn't name a programming language "Linux", even if Linus created it and it was super related or not at all related.
- seryoiupfurds 2y agoIt's not "plan9 assembly language" as in "the assembly language named plan9". Read it as "the otherwise unnamed custom assembly language used in the plan9 operating system". The article simply misspoke by saying that the assembly language is "called plan9".
- debugnik 2y agoNo way, the article consistently refers to the assembler syntax as "Plan9" throughout the text and title and they talk about "x86 Plan9" and "arm Plan9". Considering there is no introduction at all to this beyond "I discovered it's called Plan9", I'm assuming the author really thinks this is a language widely named "Plan9".