15:40:47shka_well, it aligns with what Rob said about Go few years back
15:40:49beachHe is basically explaining that there are extremely few people in my situation, i.e., who don't need grants, who already have tenure, who are not going to be promoted before retirement, so they can do what they want.
15:41:28beachTherefore, system software research is dead as a doornail.
15:42:01beachSo we are stuck with things like Linux, even though we could do much better.
15:43:12beachI should put in another 1 minutes of food preparation. I'll be back.
15:57:06beachYeah, got run into by a scooter a few years ago.
20:57:03jcowanIf there had been a SBCL-class compiler for CL in 1987, then GCC-in-CL might have been feasible. But CMUCL was only running in MacLisp at that point.
20:58:27jcowanthe earlier compiler was running on the Perq and on MIPS machines, but was certainly not suitable for writing a general purpose C compiler in, not to mention a portable one