From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Message-Id: <200406022353.i52NrZP16934@augusta.math.psu.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] GNU Make 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Jun 2004 12:24:35 EDT."
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Date: Wed,  2 Jun 2004 19:53:35 -0400
From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
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"Trickey, Howard W (Howard)" <trickey@lucent.com> writes:
> 
> > Does anyone else here believe that APE is worth enhancing?
> 
> No. Well, hardly anyone.
> The Plan 9 user community regards APE as a "failure of vision"
> not worth pursuing.

I disagree.  I see it as a necessary evil which it would be a mistake
to discard, or, just as bad, allow to decay to the point at which
discarding is necessary.

	- Dan C.