From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <4B0AE001-8B66-4375-8A68-A2DE35A5A840@fastmail.fm> From: Ethan Grammatikidis To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <20d109f0282a31f9707bb70db11c0864@kw.quanstro.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:38:35 +0100 References: <20d109f0282a31f9707bb70db11c0864@kw.quanstro.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] unknown error message Topicbox-Message-UUID: 331b979a-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 14 Jun 2010, at 03:46, erik quanstrom wrote: > > plan 9 is fairly unique in that it's a system one can > reasonablly hope to understand by reading the source. > that's it? really, that's it. Plan 9 has given me a feeling about computing I haven't had since my 8- bit days. So refreshing! Somewhat pointless post, I know, but I had to write something positive after my last mail to a certain other list. -- Complexity is not a function of the number of features. Some features exist only because complexity was _removed_ from the underlying system.