From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: X Window System
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 08:35:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4701500B.9B65CBF6@null.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6bfbb408dd471cb8d251b8dc9d7f09ea@coraid.com>
erik quanstrom wrote:
> portablity is for people cannot [sic] write new programs.
> - linus torvalds (people.fluidsignal.com/~luferbu/misc/Linus_vs_Tanenbaum.html)
No, portability is to avoid having to reinvent every single wheel.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-02 8:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-24 9:14 [9fans] " pavlovetsky
2007-09-24 10:11 ` Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente
2007-09-24 10:31 ` tlaronde
2007-09-24 11:43 ` [9fans] " pavlovetsky
2007-09-24 12:18 ` Steve Simon
2007-10-01 10:12 ` app
2007-10-01 11:40 ` Kernel Panic
2007-10-01 12:13 ` lucio
2007-10-01 13:04 ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-01 13:24 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-10-01 13:38 ` David Leimbach
2007-10-01 15:26 ` Enrico Weigelt
2007-10-01 15:23 ` Enrico Weigelt
2007-10-01 15:53 ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-01 16:44 ` ron minnich
2007-10-02 8:35 ` Douglas A. Gwyn [this message]
2007-10-01 17:24 ` marina
2007-10-01 17:47 ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-10-01 17:56 ` David Leimbach
2007-10-01 17:58 ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-10-01 18:01 ` David Leimbach
2007-10-01 18:09 ` ron minnich
2007-10-01 18:19 ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-10-01 18:31 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2007-10-01 19:32 ` marina
2007-10-01 17:55 ` David Leimbach
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