A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova.

A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova.

The True-GNU philosophy is more extreme than I care for, but it certainly laid a foundation for the current scene, as well as providing real software.

C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.

Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.

At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler

I'm still uncertain about the language declaration syntax.