Re: [9fans] Re: 9fans Digest, Vol 27, Issue 52

[Bakul Shah <bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com>]

This thread has me wondering....  Could it be that Plan 9's
"everything is a file" model works extremely well in a narrow
band of designs but does not offer much of an advantage for
larger scale designs?  May be one needs so many other things
that the advantage offered by plan 9 gets lost in the noise.

Or is it that no one has pushed use of this model hard enough
for things like browsers, compilers and such?  And may be
what is needed are Plan 9 analogues of books like The Unix
Programming Environment, The Unix Network Programming, The
Haskell School of Expression, Design Patterns, Structure and
Interpretation of Computer Programs and so on?

Or may be its way is most suited for some future where
computers as public transport for a variety of unrelated
programs are a thing of the past?