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		WalterBright on June 25, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AT&T lawyer stopped Plan 9 release CD with songs b... P.S. Bjarne Stroustrup and especially Andrew Koenig were super nice and supportive of my efforts in those days. The nascent C++ community was very welcoming.

jacquesm on June 26, 2022 [–]

And yours was a huge improvement over 'cfront'!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cfront

vs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Mars

Did you get into trouble because of the Zorland joke?

WalterBright on June 26, 2022 | [–]

Zorland was a mistake. Philippe was well within his rights to threaten a lawsuit over it.

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