From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20011127151749.0097d458@pop3.clear.net.nz> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Andrew Simmons Subject: Re: [9fans] Private Namespaces for Linux In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.6.32.20011127131344.0097d458@pop3.clear.net.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 15:17:49 +1300 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2ab4bcfa-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > >Actually I think the documents are quite excellent. I wasn't meaning to imply that the documents aren't excellent and a pleasure to read, but I personally am a book junkie, and it was "The Unix Programming Environment" that convinced me, by showing the philosophy behind it, that Unix was not just a hard-to-use abomination that only a techie could love, but was a productive environment for getting work done. I also thought there might be an outside chance that one or two of the people one sees in bookstores struggling with the 3kg Linux and Java behemoths might get inspired to try something different if they caught sight of a smaller volume describing a better way. Probably too much inertia against it, though.