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Subject: Re: [9fans] ports from GPL
From: ems <oat@iinet.net.au>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:29:44 +1100
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I prefer "everything is accessed like a file"

-- ems
On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 08:39 -0700, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> Brantley Coile wrote:
>
> > Anyone else see this?  More cultures?
> >
> >
>
> One of the more interesting to me is waserror()/poperror() vs. goto.
>
> Also, I've realized nobody in Unix understands Plan 9. It took me a
> while. The worst thing ever done was to say that in Plan 9, 'everything
> is a file'. It's not. It would have been much better to say 'everything
> is a server', maybe. But the 'everything is a file' totally muddies the
> discussion, and confuses people, to the point that you actually have to
> unwind the discussion and start over -- each and every time.
>
> ron