From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <486C19C6.5060603@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 20:13:58 -0400 From: Robert William Fuller User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080513) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] sad commentary Topicbox-Message-UUID: d80c4608-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 erik quanstrom wrote: > why are you flaming somebody who's offering reasonable > opinions? Probably because it was late and I was err celebrating something :-) That temporary lessening of inhibition in combination with the language in the e-mail to which I responded being particularly arrogant resulted in an e-mail I would not have otherwise sent. If only I were UNABLE to type while intoxicated.... Unfortunately, I found the keys. >>> offsprings. Alef has been abandoned and Limbo remains a very >>> specialised language, but they will also leave their mark. >> So does a dog pissing on a fire hydrant. > > perhaps you've forgotten that the thread library is > a direct result of alef. Nah, it was just a general reaction to the idea that leaving a mark is necessarily a positive thing. No arguments in general with your reply :-)