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Subject: Re: [9fans] MS Research reinvents Inferno?
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 09:54:10 -0800
From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com>
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> I note that the paper didn't reference any other Plan 9'ish
> things other than Inferno.  Not having read the paper I assume
> that it is an Inferno like thing.  I wonder then, why they
> don't reference Wirth's and Gutknecht's Oberon system?
> Rob did.

That's the part that bugged me the most.  They obviously
know of prior effort. There are a lot of similarities; why don't they
want to admit that they're standing on the toes of giants. They
make one (back-handed) reference to Inferno, while there
are many similarities.

Is Ethics a required subject in Engineering anymore?