[9fans] Re: questions for the Plan 9 aces out there...

["kcmunchkin@gmail.com" <kcmunchkin@gmail.com>]

thanks for the replies...

what i meant by cd jukebox...i meant that i like to rip all my cds to
my comp and use it as a jukebox.  itunes is good.  media player 11 is
good.  but, no frills is okay with me.  this is one of the main things
i use my computer for.

as for the pics.  what i meant is that i would just like to be able to
pull pics off a digital camera and store them and be able to send them
in email...don't even need to edit them at all.

and, of course, in taking a look at plan 9 i was lead to inferno.
haven't been able to figure out what, exactly, inferno is.  is it just
a plan 9 variant that's being marketed by vita nuova?  i've read many
documents regarding plan 9 (such as security and the first 20 or so
pages of the manual) and a handful regarding inferno and i have yet to
put my finger on what makes inferno different from plan 9.

i used to program in pascal in the mid-90's.  i wrote a game called
"toxi city" for the mac.  the two things i learned from that
experience were collision detection and object movement.  the last
time i wrote a program was when i got a c on my ADA test that i wrote
completely in pascal 'cause i was too busy getting smashed to even
investigate the subtle differences...or learn the major differences.
global variables and a semicolon.

one of my friends was involved in a handful of playstation 2 projects
along with writing an arcade game...she's been trying to talk me back
into the coding lifestyle.

so, is Limbo a good place to start?...she says C...but, she also says
that someone needs to write a new language so that people who are
capable of logic and reason aren't so frustrated.

thanks all!