Re: [9fans] software quality and popularity

["Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>]

the "unix code is harder to port to plan 9
than plan 9 code is to port to unix" observation,
while empirically true, is not a function of
those systems so much as the code itself.
as boyd points out, there exist portable programs
written for unix.  it's more a question of 
whether the author thought about good interfaces,
and to date plan 9 software has a better history
of that.  (that may change, of course, once plan 9
displaces windows nt and linux as the dominant server 
operating system.)