[TUHS] After 50 years, what has the Impact of Unix been?

William Cheswick ches at cheswick.com
Wed Dec 4 23:40:28 AEST 2024


This alludes to an important step that should be mentioned.  Plan 9 was a rethinking of
the whole Unix world.  Though it didn’t spread like C, many of its ideas were adopted
elsewhere.  

And its approach to multi-machine compilation and tools is clearly reflected in the design
and implementation of golang.

ches

> On Dec 4, 2024, at 8:05 AM, Marc Donner <marc.donner at gmail.com> wrote:
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> The original 1127 team went on to create other systems and languages,
> not the least being a new Software Engineering tool, “Go” / golang,
> addressing a whole slew of deficiencies in the C/C++ approach and 
> 



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