From: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] increase visibility of "Help" paper?
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 09:47:57 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7359f049050328144773f2bc57@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25228.1112046725@piper.nectar.cs.cmu.edu>
I think it's talking about a different enough system it would just be
confusing. As historical background sure, but as a usage manual,
forget it; Help didn't even have the button 3-to-acquire stuff, which
is the fundamental idea in Acme.
-rob
On Mar 29, 2005 8:52 AM, Dave Eckhardt <davide+p9@cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
> > I wonder what's the problem of Rob's paper for acme and sam...
>
> 1. People are different. Some people learn better by reading text,
> others learn better from pictures. Some things are easier to learn one
> way than another--world-class chess players may learn from books, but
> I think most world-class tennis players learn from coaches in person.
> In my experience it's not uncommon for research groups to issue demo
> videos.
>
> 2. Maybe I missed it, but I don't think I saw the function of the
> ESCAPE key documented either of those papers. I believe I stumbled
> across it in the archives by accident:
> http://lists.cse.psu.edu/archives/9fans/2001-May/011280.html
>
> 3. To me, personally, the "Help" paper is just "more fun" than the
> Acme paper. What do you think?
>
> Dave Eckhardt
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-28 22:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-28 6:30 Dave Eckhardt
2005-03-28 7:12 ` Kenji Okamoto
2005-03-28 21:52 ` Dave Eckhardt
2005-03-28 22:47 ` Rob Pike [this message]
2005-03-28 22:53 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-03-28 23:00 ` Rob Pike
2005-03-28 23:03 ` Rob Pike
2005-03-30 1:33 ` Kenji Okamoto
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