From: "David Butler" <gdb@dbSystems.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Ugly hack
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 09:31:55 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <005701c2d5d0$92f81180$644cb2cc@kds> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030216170019.Q9084@cackle.proxima.alt.za>
Please forgive this outburst, but I just have to say something...
The crux of the problem is:
[snip]
> makes rc's behaviour consistent
> with my Unix-based expectations
[snip]
Repeat after me:
"Plan 9 is not Unix and in fundamental ways can NOT,
and SHOULD NOT, be made to look like Unix."
What happens when you do echo /*/*/*/*/*/*/*/* in Windows? You
get /*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*. I guess it is not Unix. But if you run the GNU
tools....
I think the biggest problem with Plan 9 is it looks too much like Unix
and Bell Labs distributed APE. I'm glad they are generous with their
code, but I think APE is Plan 9's Pandora's box. I watch with horror
to see X, Perl and GNU tools "ported" to Plan 9. Linux was invented
to give the Unix world a toy. Play there.
I have argued this point for a long time and have recommended changes
that make Plan 9 even less POSIX like because it would make Plan 9
a better computing platform. Get out of the box.
Free Your Mind, Neo! There is no spoon.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-16 15:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-15 15:46 Lucio De Re
2003-02-15 16:18 ` Sam
2003-02-15 16:21 ` Dan Cross
2003-02-15 16:29 ` Lucio De Re
2003-02-15 23:56 ` Geoff Collyer
2003-02-16 9:20 ` Lucio De Re
2003-02-16 9:25 ` Lucio De Re
2003-02-16 12:18 ` Lucio De Re
2003-02-16 12:45 ` Lucio De Re
2003-02-16 14:19 ` Russ Cox
2003-02-16 15:00 ` Lucio De Re
2003-02-16 15:31 ` David Butler [this message]
2003-02-16 15:40 ` Russ Cox
2003-02-17 5:27 ` Lucio De Re
2003-02-17 9:53 ` John Kodis
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