[TUHS] I just noticed all the cfont aka C++ in research

[Noel Hunt]

> Or that emacs was in the v9 tree, in the religious wars
> I always imagined NJ being more vi.

I would be very much surprised if jim/sam was not the editor
of choice (apart from Ken Thompson who seemed content with
'ed').


On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 12:15 PM, Jason Stevens <
jsteve at superglobalmegacorp.com> wrote:

> I suppose that it would make sense that all of AT&T's leading edge
> projects would use research Unix. I've always heard of the original C++ to
> C translator but this is the first time I've actually seen it.
>
> It doesn't look like it had the wide scale following that C or Fortan had
> at this point.
>
> Sadly my experience with C++ was mostly tied to Borland on the micro in
> early 90's, which makes it look mature compared to these early versions.
>
> It's great finding stuff like this in the tree hiding in plain sight, if
> only you know what to look for. (http://unix.superglobalmegacorp.com/cgi-
> bin/cvsweb.cgi/researchv9/cmd/cfront/?cvsroot=rv9)
>
> Or that emacs was in the v9 tree, in the religious wars I always imagined
> NJ being more vi.
>
> Thanks again for making this release happen!
>
> --
> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
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