From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <61BB2336-8262-4E45-B14A-F313CEA50EF1@fastmail.fm> From: Ethan Grammatikidis To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:15:18 +0000 References: Subject: Re: [9fans] Man pages for add-ons Topicbox-Message-UUID: f5415c16-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 26 Mar 2010, at 17:34, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) wrote: >> in the end everything is easy for those who know >> how to do it. > > And god forbid people actually learn anything. Oh, yeah, lets all learn about namespaces and the counterintuitive things they do and don't do, and compiling and everything to do when it goes wrong, and a billion other things JUST to save devs having to work out a good solution! If anything, this attitude is why I stopped using Linux. It's worse than the ever-growing complexity we ridicule so often on this list. -- Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. -- Alan Perlis