From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] usage of CPU server
From: "rob pike" <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Fri,  3 Nov 2000 09:56:00 -0500
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You're absolutely right: every reason anyone ever gave for not
exporting functions involved a failure of imagination.  Sure,
the environment gets big; so give it more space.  Sure, you can
import from a file; so why not do that for all variables and lose
export altogether?  The point is having a dynamic programming
environment; cavils about stack size and available work-arounds
are just conservatism, and programmers are indeed a 
conservative bunch.  Pity.

I never understood the resistance. I still don't.  Fortunately, I
don't have to care any more, either, since Plan 9 has the best
implementation of the environment out there, and rc does
functions very well, thank you.

-rob