From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Message-id: <28123FAF-CC00-46FF-A949-C3B89C265C83@mac.com> From: Pietro Gagliardi To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-reply-to: <75B0469609B4534F664823CE@computer> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:25:45 -0400 References: <75B0469609B4534F664823CE@computer> Subject: Re: [9fans] Using the Acme Editor Topicbox-Message-UUID: ffdea054-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Aug 19, 2008, at 6:00 PM, Eris Discordia wrote: > That's the gist of responses you've received before this one. I've > gone through these 9ish episodes twice. Plan 9 and the related > software just isn't for someone who wants to Get Their Job Done > (tm). It's a "research" platform for those who want to "tell" other > people what they should do and how they should do it and why any > other way would be "sacrilege." No wonder it has remained as > minuscule and insignificant--9people tell you it's "nimble," don't > believe them--as it is after like 24 years of "development." Wrong on so many levels. Plan 9 lets you Get The Job Done(TM), but in a completely different way from *your* approach. Plan 9 obeys the UNIX way: tools that make jobs simpler. This is augmented by 33 libraries that provide common utilities in a transparent way. "Everything is a UTF-8 text file or a mountable filesystem, even devices and severs" encourages transparency of modules: you can copy a file from a Gopher network to a mobile phone or without running a million commands. If you are not like that, leave.