From: Martin Neubauer <m.ne@gmx.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] bug in echo?
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 01:12:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080403231234.GB940@shodan.homeunix.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25ccc14e31b80a0d5f547dda09a7074e@9srv.net>
Nobody appreciates a perfectly good joke anymore. (And I'm afraid I crossed
that line with my name-calling earlier tonight...)
* a@9srv.net (a@9srv.net) wrote:
> Is -M the switch for the built-in mail reader?
>
> This is lunacy, or profound ignorance. You're duplicating
> functionality from about a half dozen other places in here,
> perhaps most significantly the shell. The software tools
> model gets its profound power from using simple tools
> which do one thing well and can be combined in arbitrary
> ways. Your... whatever... does lots of arbitrary things,
> while not actually doing much of anything for the user.
>
> If this is the "ultimate" echo, I fear for what "something
> cool" might be. I don't think my health could take it.
> Anthony
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-03 23:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-26 11:41 Gorka Guardiola
2008-03-26 12:27 ` Rob Pike
2008-03-26 12:41 ` Gorka Guardiola
2008-03-26 12:52 ` Sape Mullender
2008-03-26 13:19 ` Gorka Guardiola
2008-03-26 20:27 ` Iruata Souza
2008-03-26 12:40 ` Anthony Martin
2008-03-26 13:13 ` Gorka Guardiola
2008-03-26 13:19 ` Joel C. Salomon
2008-03-26 13:40 ` Gorka Guardiola
2008-03-31 8:58 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2008-03-26 13:55 ` erik quanstrom
2008-03-26 15:52 ` Gorka Guardiola
2008-03-26 17:26 ` roger peppe
2008-03-26 18:10 ` erik quanstrom
2008-03-26 18:58 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-03-26 19:38 ` Joel C. Salomon
2008-03-26 19:43 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2008-03-26 20:01 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-03-26 20:09 ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-03-26 20:22 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-03-26 20:30 ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-03-26 20:56 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-03-26 22:06 ` Iruata Souza
2008-03-26 22:26 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-03-26 22:54 ` Iruata Souza
2008-03-27 3:40 ` Robert William Fuller
2008-03-27 3:47 ` Bruce Ellis
2008-04-01 9:07 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2008-03-27 1:57 ` Gorka Guardiola
2008-03-27 2:17 ` Gorka Guardiola
2008-03-27 2:21 ` Joel C. Salomon
2008-03-27 2:37 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-03-27 3:45 ` Bruce Ellis
2008-03-27 16:37 ` john
2008-03-27 17:03 ` [9fans] databases erik quanstrom
2008-03-27 19:08 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-03-28 4:05 ` a
2008-03-28 3:46 ` [9fans] bug in echo? a
2008-03-31 16:26 ` Russ Cox
2008-04-01 9:07 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2008-03-26 20:10 ` roger peppe
2008-04-01 9:06 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2008-04-01 9:06 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2008-04-01 9:22 ` Anders Li
2008-04-03 8:54 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2008-04-03 16:46 ` ron minnich
2008-04-03 18:04 ` Gorka Guardiola
2008-04-03 18:23 ` Martin Neubauer
2008-04-03 19:11 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-04-03 19:30 ` Steven D. Vormwald
2008-04-03 19:44 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-04-03 22:16 ` a
2008-04-03 22:26 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-04-03 22:44 ` John Floren
2008-04-03 22:53 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-04-03 23:12 ` Martin Neubauer [this message]
2008-04-08 23:51 ` david parsons
2008-04-09 0:02 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-03-26 13:15 ` Joel C. Salomon
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