Re: building Alef language

You need a license to run the 1st and 2nd ed.

The 2nd ed books/cds (and thus the license) have not been printed for a long time.

the images may have leaked but i think we should still try to respect the terms of the license.

-Steve


> On 23 Sep 2019, at 2:01 am, Sean Hinchee <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> You could also just run 2e in a VM and show it off there :)
> 
> 2e can be coaxed into running under virtualbox, even.
> 
> Cheers,
> Sean
> 
>> On 9/22/19 12:46 AM, Phil Kulin wrote:
>> You right. I am preparing slides for my report on upcoming
>> GolangConf-2019 in Moscow. I need Alef, libthread and Limbo for
>> explaining some golang features.
>>> On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 6:16 AM Lucio De Re <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I have a version for legacy Plan 9, lightly tested, that I have not
>>> looked at in ages.
>>> 
>>> Happy to haul it out, but I see little value in it. Go may have
>>> idiosyncrasies, but it is much more suited to modern architectures.
>>> That said, had Go not surfaced, I would have much preferred Alef to
>>> many other options.
>>> 
>>> Don't forget the rationale for dropping Alef: support for the
>>> language, across many architectures and including many libraries would
>>> have been crippling.
>>> 
>>> Both of those are now Go's strong suits.
>>> 
>>> Lucio.
>>> 
>>> PS: A tar archive may be on sources under "proxima" - it's been a long time.
>>>