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From: Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Help downloading Plan B using hget
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 01:22:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5d375e920811141622v794ffc6bje18388c85380143b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <016F1E5D-DFCA-4DA2-AC9B-9B0C20866C8C@mac.com>

Maybe those programmers should learn a bit more about the system they
are working with before making such presumptions... but then, since
the days of Berkeley kids mixing LSD with cat's flags, seems that all
regard for the unix style has been forgotten in the race to add more
'features' and implement more standards.

uriel

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:51 AM, Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com> wrote:
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> On Nov 14, 2008, at 6:46 PM, Uriel wrote:
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>> I wonder why was stderr invented...
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>> uriel
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> Oh yes, that's also something I can explain. Some programmers use the
> definitions literally: "stderr is not used for a progress bar, make
> stdprog."
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-15  0:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-14 19:50 Nolan Hamilton
2008-11-14 20:04 ` michael block
2008-11-14 20:08 ` Robert Raschke
2008-11-14 20:20 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-11-14 21:26   ` Russ Cox
2008-11-14 21:31     ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-11-14 21:42       ` ron minnich
2008-11-14 23:21     ` Dave Eckhardt
2008-11-14 23:30       ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-11-14 23:46         ` Uriel
2008-11-14 23:51           ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-11-15  0:22             ` Uriel [this message]
2008-11-15  0:36               ` [9fans] Thank you (was Re: Help downloading Plan B using hget) Pietro Gagliardi
2008-11-15  2:10               ` [9fans] Help downloading Plan B using hget Nolan Hamilton
2008-11-14 23:55       ` Gorka Guardiola
2008-11-14 20:22 ` Pietro Gagliardi

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