From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <442CB12F.3020400@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:33:51 -0800 From: "veritosproject@gmail.com" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] new compilers References: <20060330204632.GI17479@submarine> <6e35c0620603302024g5a605f84u75fe6c3e7d6c14dc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6e35c0620603302024g5a605f84u75fe6c3e7d6c14dc@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------070902090903030502090302" Topicbox-Message-UUID: 290a77a8-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------070902090903030502090302 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Depends on how lazy you are. Lazy people read the man page first, hackerly types experiment, and lazy hackers spend their time on IRC anyway so it's not much more effort to go on and ask. ;) Jack Johnson wrote: >On 3/30/06, Roman Shaposhnick wrote: > > >>On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 07:27:32PM +0100, rog@vitanuova.com wrote: >> (especially with an additional constraint that nobody >> reads man pages) ? >> >> > >Aren't man pages are what you read in between experimentation and >asking for help on IRC? > >;) > >-Jack > > > --------------070902090903030502090302 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Depends on how lazy you are. Lazy people read the man page first, hackerly types experiment, and lazy hackers spend their time on IRC anyway so it's not much more effort to go on and ask.

;)

Jack Johnson wrote:

On 3/30/06, Roman Shaposhnick <rvs@sun.com> wrote:

On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 07:27:32PM +0100, rog@vitanuova.com wrote:
  (especially with an additional constraint that nobody
  reads man pages) ?


Aren't man pages are what you read in between experimentation and
asking for help on IRC?

;)

-Jack

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