From: iainws <iainws@gmail.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] gcc not an option for Plan9
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:44:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01d40739-f0b5-4d05-b1d9-1f455b2765ce@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8725fb40e1e636c212e7603cf1285aca@proxima.alt.za>
On Tuesday, 26 March 2013 17:03:14 UTC+11, Kurt H Maier wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 06:45:33AM +0200, lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote:
>
> > But it's a strange thing to want to do. A bit like asking for the
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> > Ford Model T gear shift in a modern car.
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>
>
> I reject this analogy and the implied value judgement.
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>
>
> > Choices have been made by those who had the right influence (you may
>
> > want to call it power) and some of those choices were known to be
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> > wrong at the time or were discovered to be wrong subsequently - we
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> > call this history. The best we can do now is to make sure that when
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> > new choices present themselves (which is all the time, of course) the
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> > decision making is closer to the needs of those who have to live with
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> > them. The rest is known familiarly as politics.
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>
>
> What is your point? I need to elevate myself with in trade
>
> organizations to avoid using javascript? I'm not sure where you're
>
> going with this.
It is a pointless reflection. There is no need for a Model T gear
box, and there hasn't been for years.
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Thread overview: 122+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-23 9:45 tlaronde
2013-03-23 9:53 ` Richard Miller
2013-03-23 9:56 ` Steve Simon
2013-03-23 21:34 ` tlaronde
2013-03-23 10:05 ` tlaronde
2013-03-23 10:24 ` lucio
2013-03-23 11:40 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2013-03-23 12:25 ` lucio
2013-03-23 16:06 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2013-03-23 16:09 ` erik quanstrom
2013-03-23 16:19 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2013-03-23 16:23 ` erik quanstrom
2013-03-23 16:39 ` Gorka Guardiola
2013-03-23 17:15 ` Rob Pike
2013-03-23 17:20 ` erik quanstrom
2013-03-23 19:29 ` Rob Pike
2013-03-23 19:31 ` erik quanstrom
2013-03-23 19:34 ` Rob Pike
2013-03-23 19:33 ` Rob Pike
2013-03-23 19:39 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2013-03-23 19:58 ` andrey mirtchovski
2013-03-23 20:11 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2013-03-24 0:44 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-03-23 17:23 ` hiro
2013-03-23 17:30 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2013-03-23 17:44 ` hiro
2013-03-23 17:52 ` Nemo
2013-03-23 17:31 ` hiro
2013-03-23 17:33 ` hiro
2013-03-23 17:37 ` tlaronde
2013-03-23 17:55 ` erik quanstrom
2013-03-23 19:13 ` andrey mirtchovski
2013-03-23 19:23 ` ron minnich
2013-03-23 19:56 ` Gorka Guardiola
2013-03-23 23:45 ` andrey mirtchovski
2013-03-23 23:58 ` Bruce Ellis
2013-03-24 8:49 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2013-03-24 9:02 ` Steve Simon
2013-03-24 9:22 ` lucio
2013-03-30 19:49 ` ron minnich
2013-03-25 14:45 ` Nicolas Bercher
2013-03-23 19:17 ` Rob Pike
2013-03-23 19:19 ` Rob Pike
2013-03-23 19:32 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2013-03-23 19:37 ` Rob Pike
2013-03-23 19:43 ` Rob Pike
2013-03-24 0:46 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-03-23 19:45 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2013-03-25 9:43 ` [9fans] mk and transitive dependencies (was: gcc not an option for Plan9) dexen deVries
2013-03-25 10:26 ` Gorka Guardiola
2013-03-25 10:33 ` hiro
2013-03-25 10:40 ` Bence Fábián
2013-03-25 10:42 ` Gorka Guardiola
2013-03-25 11:00 ` dexen deVries
2013-03-25 10:40 ` Gorka Guardiola
2013-03-25 10:43 ` dexen deVries
2013-03-25 11:02 ` [9fans] mk and transitive dependencies (was: gcc not an option lucio
2013-03-25 11:09 ` [9fans] mk and transitive dependencies (was: gcc not an option for Plan9) Bence Fábián
2013-03-25 13:30 ` erik quanstrom
2013-03-25 11:16 ` tlaronde
2013-03-25 11:55 ` Charles Forsyth
2013-03-25 12:10 ` tlaronde
2013-03-25 20:37 ` Steve Simon
2013-03-25 13:35 ` erik quanstrom
2013-03-25 14:38 ` andrey mirtchovski
2013-03-25 17:30 ` Ori Bernstein
2013-03-23 23:03 ` [9fans] gcc not an option for Plan9 David Leimbach
2013-03-23 19:29 ` hiro
2013-03-23 17:47 ` Gorka Guardiola
2013-03-24 0:41 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-03-24 9:48 ` tlaronde
2013-03-24 11:56 ` Dustin Fechner
2013-03-24 12:03 ` tlaronde
2013-03-23 16:20 ` Gorka Guardiola
2013-03-23 16:37 ` lucio
2013-03-25 5:48 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2013-03-25 6:27 ` lucio
2013-03-25 16:45 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-03-25 19:04 ` lucio
2013-03-25 19:19 ` sl
2013-03-25 19:31 ` aram
2013-03-25 19:35 ` sl
2013-03-26 22:01 ` Bence Fábián
2013-03-26 22:05 ` sl
2013-03-26 22:17 ` Bence Fábián
2013-03-25 20:18 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-03-26 4:45 ` lucio
2013-03-26 6:03 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-03-26 9:44 ` iainws [this message]
2013-03-26 12:07 ` sl
2013-03-26 12:11 ` Rubén Berenguel
2013-03-26 12:16 ` dexen deVries
2013-03-26 12:16 ` hiro
2013-03-26 12:20 ` Rubén Berenguel
2013-03-26 12:57 ` Charles Forsyth
2013-03-26 13:04 ` Rubén Berenguel
2013-03-26 8:28 ` dexen deVries
2013-03-25 19:38 ` erik quanstrom
2013-03-25 19:46 ` lucio
2013-03-25 19:51 ` andrey mirtchovski
2013-03-25 19:58 ` tlaronde
2013-03-25 19:51 ` sl
2013-03-25 20:13 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-03-26 9:43 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2013-03-23 17:08 ` hiro
2013-03-25 5:53 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2013-03-23 9:54 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2013-03-23 10:10 ` tlaronde
2013-03-23 10:15 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2013-03-23 12:17 ` Bakul Shah
2013-03-23 12:48 ` lucio
2013-03-25 1:00 Winston Kodogo
2013-03-25 1:20 ` Dan Cross
2013-03-25 1:24 ` andrey mirtchovski
2013-03-25 1:27 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2013-03-25 1:36 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-03-25 1:42 ` Dan Cross
2013-03-25 1:45 ` Jacob Todd
2013-03-25 1:47 ` andrey mirtchovski
2013-03-25 1:54 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-03-25 2:02 ` Dan Cross
2013-03-25 2:08 ` Kurt H Maier
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