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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
>
>


  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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