From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 18 Dec 2013 11:28:21 CST." References: <20131218164042.524C6B827@mail.bitblocks.com> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 10:13:40 -0800 From: Bakul Shah Message-Id: <20131218181340.DB6F6B827@mail.bitblocks.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Problem with mk Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9fe66498-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, 18 Dec 2013 11:28:21 CST Blake McBride wrote: > > I'd be a better judge if I understood the purposeful, thought out reason > behind the problems I am experiencing - assuming there is one. "That's > just the way it works" or "we do it differently because we are not unix" > are stupid as hell arguments. "That's just the way it works" is exactly the right attitude to take when you are learning a new language or entering a new culture! Expecting the new language/culture/world to be better or similar to the old will lead to a lot of frustration and slow you down quite a bit. So leave your value judgements at the door and just try to understand things *as they are*. > I remain confident that there is a thought out, reasonable algorithm > employed by mk that I am yet ignorant of. Tom Knight and the Lisp Machine A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong. Knight turned the machine off and on. The machine worked.