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From: greywolf@unicom.UUCP (When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Jerry Pournelle on UNIX (from BYTE)
Message-ID: <232@unicom.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 88 21:07:25 GMT
References: <11129@brl-adm.ARPA> <170@hdr.UUCP>
Reply-To: greywolf@unicom.UUCP (When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.)
Organization: Science Computer Center, MCC, Kentfield, CA
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In article <170@hdr.UUCP> eric@hdr.UUCP (Eric J. Johnson) writes:
>
>Wrong. a Unix rewrite is already in the works.  This was mentioned
>by Bill Joy at the December Sun Users Group Convention in San Jose.
>The new 'enhanced' version of System V will be rewritten from scratch
>in C++.  The slide he showed had all the major flavors of Unix being
>merged back into one product.
>

A rewrite in C--?  Gads, that sounds like an absolute nightmare...
is C really going down and something else taking its place?  The least
they could do if they were going to rewrite UNIX is to try and truly
integrate the best of both worlds (i.e. BSD & System V).  (Each has its
own good points and drawbacks as I am sure most well-educated programmers
are aware.  The problem with integrations is they end up integrating the
drawbacks and forgetting about the good points...)

Does C-- follow the ANSI standards?

Where is the UNIX world going??

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