From: Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] kenc
Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 13:48:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5d375e920705010448y64292608m908171c894d3dcf6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070501104843.EF58F1E8C1F@holo.morphisms.net>
Bashing standards is fundamentally related to Plan 9.
"Estimate that 90-95% of the work in Plan 9 was directly or
indirectly to honor externally imposed standards." -- Rob Pike in utah2000
Standards have done more harm to Plan 9 (and the software world) than
probably anything else.
"standards are the beginning of doom" -- Nietzsche
uriel
P.S.: And I guess insulting me has become an equally intrinsic part of
this list.
On 5/1/07, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
> > Doug, I'm not getting at you, but do you never feel, enough is enough?
>
> This discussed has strayed completely away
> from being even tangentially related to Plan 9.
> Could you take this to private email or comp.lang.c?
>
> Russ
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-01 11:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-01 9:33 Saint Sexburga
2007-05-01 10:48 ` Russ Cox
2007-05-01 11:48 ` Uriel [this message]
2007-05-02 8:32 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-05-03 3:39 ` Roman Shaposhnick
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