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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:17:21 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] TeX: hurrah!
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> I'm beginning to get the impression (or perhaps
> more accurately am increasingly getting the
> impression) that the plan9 community is reactionary
> rather than progressive... not a good characteristic
> if one is trying to make advances in comparison with
> one's predecessors...

i think the plan 9 community does come off as reactionary.
we tend to fight change too often to no effect or declare
things as depricated and useless when they are not.

i don't think that object-oriented design is one of these.
especially as implemented by c++.  i think limbo or
go's approach to this (regardless of what you think of the
langage) is much more sensible.  go of course, goes a little
further in what you can do with an interface.

- erik