From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753) In-Reply-To: <787a7ff52756493991792d6cb51d6b34@quanstro.net> References: <787a7ff52756493991792d6cb51d6b34@quanstro.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <27F19AF4-00E0-4B56-AE0B-4703B752F7E1@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Pietro Gagliardi Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Building GCC Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:38:05 -0500 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 374b69ce-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Jan 24, 2008, at 2:27 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> > dr. wirth can not be accused of software bloat nor of poor > programming. > is work is excellent. the oberon system is so spartian there are > no directories. > that's just too spartain for me. > I can agree Wirth has improved his ways over the past 20 years, but I never got Oberon installed. No directories has not been practiced ever to my memory; the closest I can think of off the top of my head is the first Macintosh only having directories in / and no subdirectories. > you know, i don't feel like i need to get the world using plan 9. > it's enough to change myself. > > - erik The world doesn't need to use Plan 9 - I doubt there is advertising anymore. But if someone else hears about Plan 9 and doesn't want to use it because he doesn't find it familiar, he'll probably say the same thing. I am perfectly comfortable with Plan 9 the way it is, and I enjoy troff, but the rest of the world may think otherwise. This discussion started with me trying to get GCC to work. Now it's run off into about 3,000 different directions and I don't know much anymore. I just want to mention that I also tried GCC to see if I could build Ruby 1.9.0 with it.