[COFF] Other OSes?

[Perry E. Metzger]

On Sun, 8 Jul 2018 21:52:09 -0600 Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> It would also let the program do 'noise
> words' like TOPS-20 did w/o having to actually parse them...

Noise words are a thing Unix is missing, but given the lack of
CMND JSYS style completion, the reason for the lack is obvious --
nothing generates noisewords so nothing needs to ignore them. This is
yet another cool thing clang's --complete hack could make widely
available, though then we'd need a standard for noisewords.

> clang --complete is an interesting variation on my ideas within the
> realm of doing non-standard weird things and starts to place the
> burden of knowledge on the program itself, which is more in line
> with the thinking of Unix and the main stream of OOish thought
> we've know about since the early 70s with smalltalk and other such
> pioneering things.

Precisely. The clang hack is exactly what one would want if it could
be made popular.

Perry
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