[Info-vax] [OT] Wirth style languages, was: Re: Obscure Ada compiler vendors?

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <kjvfjl$v2a$1 at usenet01.boi.hp.com>, Keith Parris
<keithparris_deletethis at yahoo.com> writes: 

> By this logic, the GNU project and Linux could never have caught up 
> with, much less surpassed or exceeded, UNIX capabilities.

The goalposts were much closer in the case of unix.