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		OldSchool on May 24, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ifs and &&s and Plan 9's Source Code I see, I just have no idea how complete the Plan 9 tools are. Working with in-house domain specific language interpreters or compilers I've twice seen unary minus support missing so I assumed anything was possible when something's not fully commercialized.

glurgh on May 24, 2013 [–]

This popped up in some other thread recently. It was (still is, I suppose) a standard ANSI C89 compiler with a couple of small extensions and tweaks. Ken Thompson's short overview is here -

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/compiler.html

You can nerdmuse yourself a little by googling why it had a

    #pragma hjdicks

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