Re:Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
by pjmlp on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @04:19PM
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> The fact is: we didn't know how to do some things properly in 1978.
Actually we did know how to make it properly, as Extended Algol in Burroughs B5000 in 1961 was being used, just to cite one example from many others that were ignored by the UNIX authors, because they didn't want to spend too much effort designing a proper compiler.
Actually we did know how to make it properly, as Extended Algol in Burroughs B5000 in 1961 was being used, just to cite one example from many others that were ignored by the UNIX authors, because they didn't want to spend too much effort designing a proper compiler.