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From: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 2 things
Date: Fri,  5 Oct 2007 13:56:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <13426df10710051356g48579e18n81a4e4a4eb0452ac@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.30.0710042140590.11567-100000@multivac.sdsc.edu>

On 10/4/07, Geoffrey Avila <avlg@sdsc.edu> wrote:
>Lots of people seem to like
> getting at their data via an API more rich than what can be reasonably
> offered as a seekable bytestream.
>
> Isn't that a very explicitly un-plan9-like thing to want?

that's not un-plan9-like at all.

> People are used to a big heavy
> library/class thing to call on to do something.
>

is this a good thing or just something we live with?

ron


  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-05 20:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-04 15:45 ron minnich
2007-10-04 15:52 ` Lluís Batlle
2007-10-04 17:09 ` Geoffrey Avila
2007-10-05  0:42   ` Adrian Tritschler
2007-10-05  1:00   ` ron minnich
2007-10-05  5:07     ` Geoffrey Avila
2007-10-05 20:56       ` ron minnich [this message]
2007-10-06  1:37         ` Geoffrey Avila
2007-10-06  1:59           ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-06 10:18             ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-10-06 10:44               ` Charles Forsyth

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