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

Bill Gunshannon bill at server1.cs.uofs.edu
Tue Apr 9 09:14:34 EDT 2013


In article <kk06eh$hds$1 at online.de>,
	helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) writes:
> In article <kjvfjl$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.
> 

In what way has Linux "surpassed or exceeded" Unix?  Other than,
perhaps, in marketing.

bill

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