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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:13:28 +0100
From: Dave Lukes <davel@anvil.com>
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To: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] alright, this should be interesting
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Russ,
Again, I think you miss the point: you are not the problem: the rest of 
us are!

>Also, your particular example is definitely flawed:
>
>    Kernels are also important in the sense that they set
>    the tone for everything above them: kencc wouldn't have
>    happened on linux, for example.
>
>The cleanliness of Plan 9's kernel and the cleanliness of
>the C compilers are definitely correlated, but not directly.
>They're clean because Ken was intimately involved in both.
>  
>
See my other post: the key word here is "Ken": many others (myself 
included) couldn't have.

Cheers,
    Dave.