From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [9fans] insularity From: Dave Lukes To: 9fans <9fans@cse.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: <189cf4ae0d3c5216477f4e72d63e0589@vitanuova.com> References: <189cf4ae0d3c5216477f4e72d63e0589@vitanuova.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1079546282.14420.696.camel@zevon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 17:58:02 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 342bdbd0-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > just thinking you "get it" doesn't necessarily mean anything when it > comes to *actually* doing things with the system. it's only then that > the ugly (or not) realities start to bite. And the pretty ones too. > i really don't see how you could justify saying the things you > previously said when you haven't actually tried to do this stuff > yourself. Because I understand how the system's supposed to work. Getting bogged down in "how do I get an azerty keyboard to work?" is not what it's about. > i read plan 9 manuals for years before i ever got my hands on a > working system - and when i did, i quickly realised that it's very > easy to imagine a system that's significantly different from the one > which actually exists... Yes, and it's equally easy to imagine a system that's significantly the same too ...