From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] more fossil woes
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:59:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031111115906.B6815@cackle.proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b962557127e87351162b5916bae3e00d@hamnavoe.com>; from Richard Miller on Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 09:16:46AM +0000
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 09:16:46AM +0000, Richard Miller wrote:
>
> > (a
> > decent OS which is comfortable to work with, if a bit spartan)
>
> s/if/because/
>
> spartan => easy to understand => comfortable to work with
>
> IMHO.
You're entitled to your opinion, of course, but spartan is more or
less the opposite of opulent, implying a shortage of comforts.
The bit about "easy to understand" does not follow from "spartan",
nor, to be frank, does it make much of a premiss for "comfortable
to work with".
So which is it: Spartan or comfortable? I think the latter, because
the real needs are addressed and no attempt at satisfying the
artificial needs (curse that browser!) has come along to bloat the
base architecture.
I guess that means that Plan 9 may seem spartan to those who are
not entirely sold on its fundamentals. No offence intended, of
course.
++L
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-11 9:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-01 0:24 andrey mirtchovski
2003-11-01 4:18 ` jmk
2003-11-01 7:56 ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-11-01 5:35 ` Russ Cox
2003-11-01 7:50 ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-11-11 4:59 ` Russ Cox
2003-11-11 4:35 ` mirtchov
2003-11-11 6:08 ` Russ Cox
2003-11-11 6:08 ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-11-11 9:16 ` Richard Miller
2003-11-11 9:59 ` Lucio De Re [this message]
2003-11-11 10:36 ` David Lukes
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