From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Cc: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Maybe it is april fool's after all ...
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 09:37:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14893.128.165.0.81.1137861478.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <175220925b5b1b6ea06e408fa9a51c2c@plan9.bell-labs.com>
> the original point was that it doesn't matter whether you can
> see the source or not, the effect is the same - failure to deal
> with complexity results in an inability to simply compile a
> working programme on new hardware running the same O/S and have
> it work. instead, hacks are done and baggage is carried around
> to keep the old binary working.
>
it's even worse than that, because people learn from the bad code. We're
raising a whole generation of people who think awful stuff is how it's
done ...
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-21 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-19 17:54 Ronald G Minnich
2006-01-19 20:43 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-01-19 22:28 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-01-20 11:58 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2006-01-20 16:08 ` jmk
2006-01-20 16:13 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-01-20 22:19 ` Paweł Lasek
2006-01-21 4:01 ` jmk
2006-01-21 4:06 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-01-21 4:26 ` erik quanstrom
2006-01-21 5:09 ` jmk
2006-01-21 6:20 ` uriel
2006-01-21 8:36 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-01-21 7:42 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-01-21 13:09 ` Brantley Coile
2006-01-21 16:37 ` Ronald G. Minnich [this message]
2006-01-21 18:49 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-01-21 19:43 ` David Leimbach
2006-01-21 21:13 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-01-21 13:11 ` Brantley Coile
2006-01-20 17:33 ` David Leimbach
2006-01-20 17:36 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-01-20 17:53 ` jmk
2006-01-20 18:10 ` Dave Lukes
2006-01-20 18:38 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-01-21 19:29 ` Marina Brown
2006-01-20 20:14 ` Ronald G Minnich
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