From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3e1162e60606100932j6fc3b350ja71878daa17b1c3f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 09:32:17 -0700 From: "David Leimbach" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] gcc on plan9 In-Reply-To: <20060610013614.GK2291@submarine> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <6bade14db4abcc8a80cff1419f435305@quanstro.net> <200606090540.05841.corey_s@qwest.net> <20060610013614.GK2291@submarine> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6760bbde-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 6/9/06, Roman Shaposhnick wrote: > On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 05:40:05AM -0700, Corey wrote: > > I'd just like to use this space to thank everyone's patience, and to apologize if > > I managed to inadvertently ruffle-feathers or cause annoyance - I hope it can be > > seen that I'm being sincere, and that I do appreciate the opportunity to risk > > bouncing some semi half-baked ideas off the experts and professionals here > > on this list in a friendly manner; > > And that I regard as the third most cherished virtue of Plan9 -- the 9fans. > As much as I've had noticeably better luck with reading Plan9 code > for self educating purposes I've had even better luck with asking questions > and getting insightful answers on this list. Even in cases where questions > didn't have anything to do with Plan9 per se. True -- there's occasional > flame storm here and there or a ghost from the hangar, but compared to > the usual opensource mailing lists its like comparing College and High School, > if you know what I mean ;-) > Yeah, I'd like to second that. I've been known to ask the occasional pointed question which always seems to do one of two beneficial things. 1. Opens up a discussion about things and a exploration of a topic that maybe someone other than myself is at least "lurkingly" interested in. 2. Exposes my ignorance of some fact or feature, and allows me to grow a bit more. This list is generally very good for those things and it's because of all the people on it.