From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: RE: [9fans] alright, this should be interesting
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:06:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16c92c57f1d27fe3631417e7279cf6a4@9netics.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <HOEHIDJJJINMLFPOLFJCOEMNDFAA.nigel@9fs.org>
> Ugliness is in the eye of the beholder.
Moral relativism doesn't apply to ugly code (and cannibalism).
> Are you telling me that Google would be demonstrably better
> built on Plan 9? I can't see that, and nor would any of
> their customers, because the kernel is hidden from view.
Better and different. They could do things that they can't do
(easily) now. When you multiply not-easy by a large number, it
becomes an impossibility. I think the statement about "Bringing data
to the user instead of the other way around: Those damn browsers are
still in the way" is very telling. And yes, there would be a
practical problem of building Plan9 administrative expertise -- mostly
a mater of time.
> Most users in the world don't see the code, and don't care
> about it's uglyness. They care whether something works and is
> easy to use.
But we're not talking about everybody. Somebody has to,
and many of the people here have worked on systems that are
the guts of many things being used now.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-20 17:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-05 17:36 andrey mirtchovski
2004-10-06 1:07 ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-10-06 1:25 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-10-06 5:25 ` geoff
2004-10-06 7:52 ` C H Forsyth
2004-10-18 16:05 ` Leo Caves
2004-10-19 2:50 ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-10-19 15:44 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-10-19 15:57 ` Dave Lukes
2004-10-19 19:45 ` Tim Newsham
2004-10-19 21:22 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-10-19 22:47 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-10-19 23:39 ` Dave Lukes
2004-10-20 3:25 ` Tim Newsham
2004-10-20 9:46 ` Steve Simon
2004-10-20 14:20 ` Russ Cox
2004-10-20 19:47 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-10-20 20:29 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-10-20 20:41 ` boyd, rounin
2004-10-21 1:31 ` Tim Newsham
2004-10-21 16:19 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-10-19 23:17 ` Dave Lukes
2004-10-20 4:01 ` Tim Newsham
2004-10-20 4:19 ` Russ Cox
2004-10-20 4:27 ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-10-20 6:23 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2004-10-20 7:36 ` Nigel Roles
2004-10-20 11:20 ` Dave Lukes
2004-10-20 12:36 ` Nigel Roles
2004-10-20 13:45 ` Brantley Coile
2004-10-24 5:33 ` Dan Cross
2004-10-24 11:53 ` Tiit Lankots
2004-10-24 13:44 ` Brantley Coile
2004-10-25 11:23 ` Dave Lukes
2004-10-20 17:06 ` Skip Tavakkolian [this message]
2004-10-22 7:12 ` Dave Lukes
2004-10-22 19:02 ` Jason Gurtz
2004-10-23 1:27 ` Dave Lukes
2004-10-20 18:40 ` boyd, rounin
2004-10-20 20:16 ` Nigel Roles
2004-10-20 20:46 ` boyd, rounin
2004-10-20 19:59 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-10-20 20:02 ` Russ Cox
2004-10-20 20:05 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2004-10-20 20:25 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-10-20 20:48 ` boyd, rounin
2004-10-21 18:36 ` Dave Lukes
2004-10-21 4:47 ` William Josephson
2004-10-20 20:44 ` boyd, rounin
2004-10-23 18:54 ` Dan Cross
2004-10-20 11:13 ` Dave Lukes
2004-10-20 11:09 ` Dave Lukes
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