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No, it's still missing floats, mixins, reflection, etc. Not to mention integration with existing libs like databases, xml parsing, etc.
by technoweenie 17y ago
No, it's still missing floats, mixins, reflection, etc. Not to mention integration with existing libs like databases, xml parsing, etc.
- silentbicycle 17y agoWhich is too bad, because it really encumbers implementing something truly novel. To be realistically useful, a tool needs to integrate with existing tools and standards, but that's a lot of work. "I estimate that 90-95% of the work in Plan 9 was directly or indirectly to honor externally imposed standards." - Rob Pike, "Systems Software Research is Irrelevant" (http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/rob/utah2000.pdf http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/rob/utah2000.pdf)