From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] software quality and popularity
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 08:46:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B0C15B0.B6661E94@null.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010523153915.DA48319A15@mail.cse.psu.edu>
jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
> On Wed May 23 11:25:26 EDT 2001, DAGwyn@null.net wrote:
> > Oh, great, more usurping of data values for in-band
> > signalling of exceptional conditions.
> Oh, great, more whining.
It is an example of a long-standing and well-known mistake
in interface design, which *should* be one of the things
that is "rethought" in Plan 9. If you guys didn't keep
implying that the only rationally-designed software is
that in Plan 9, I might be more tolerant of your mistakes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-24 8:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-23 15:39 jmk
2001-05-24 8:46 ` Douglas A. Gwyn [this message]
2001-05-24 14:34 ` David Lukes
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2001-05-25 2:09 okamoto
2001-05-25 0:48 okamoto
2001-05-25 8:21 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-05-24 14:42 jmk
2001-05-24 16:08 ` Dan Cross
2001-05-24 12:01 jmk
2001-05-24 14:14 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-05-24 15:31 ` David Lukes
2001-05-23 18:45 David Gordon Hogan
2001-05-24 8:46 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-05-23 15:38 Russ Cox
2001-05-23 1:27 okamoto
2001-05-23 6:47 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-05-23 1:01 rob pike
2001-05-23 1:15 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-05-23 14:56 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-05-23 0:58 okamoto
2001-05-22 23:26 jmk
2001-05-23 14:57 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-05-22 22:39 Eric Grosse
2001-05-22 20:31 Russ Cox
2001-05-22 21:28 ` Dan Cross
2001-04-26 23:46 [9fans] Awk or Limbo ? geoff.9fans
2001-05-22 19:28 ` [9fans] software quality and popularity Richard Uhtenwoldt
2001-05-22 20:10 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-05-22 22:12 ` andrey mirtchovski
2001-05-22 22:34 ` William Staniewicz
2001-05-23 8:24 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
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