From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] dumb question
From: rog@vitanuova.com
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Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 13:27:47 +0100
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some great quotes have come out of this little exchange:

"9ers do it with du"
"...techno-pissing contest..."
"human beings aren't that different from machines"
"you keep replacing speed with blind simplicity"

the latter seems like a fair summary of what plan 9 is about:
sacrifice a few CPU cycles here for some more generality there.

> im arguing about the apparent acceptance of a solution which wastes
> resources

we accept many solutions that, strictly speaking, waste resources.

e.g.
	ls | wc

but do we care?  not unless the overhead impacts significantly on our
ability to get the job done...  and if it does, then measurement and
judicious optimisation is the way forward, as with any programming
task.

  cheers,
    rog.