From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <5d375e920705010448y64292608m908171c894d3dcf6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 13:48:22 +0200 From: Uriel To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] kenc In-Reply-To: <20070501104843.EF58F1E8C1F@holo.morphisms.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070501104843.EF58F1E8C1F@holo.morphisms.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 54653414-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 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 > >