From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 02:03:14 -0400 From: Kurt H Maier To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20130326060314.GA92197@intma.in> References: <20130325201808.GB26252@intma.in> <8725fb40e1e636c212e7603cf1285aca@proxima.alt.za> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8725fb40e1e636c212e7603cf1285aca@proxima.alt.za> Subject: Re: [9fans] gcc not an option for Plan9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 35e4f5e6-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 06:45:33AM +0200, lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote: > But it's a strange thing to want to do. A bit like asking for the > Ford Model T gear shift in a modern car. I reject this analogy and the implied value judgement. > Choices have been made by those who had the right influence (you may > want to call it power) and some of those choices were known to be > wrong at the time or were discovered to be wrong subsequently - we > call this history. The best we can do now is to make sure that when > new choices present themselves (which is all the time, of course) the > decision making is closer to the needs of those who have to live with > them. The rest is known familiarly as politics. What is your point? I need to elevate myself with in trade organizations to avoid using javascript? I'm not sure where you're going with this.