From: "Rob Pike" <robpike@gmail.com>
To: lucio@proxima.alt.za,
"Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Colors and other fun
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:07:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7359f0490706270807ia34da8bl408c6042474637b4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1182938893.5445.26.camel@simple>
It's more than that. Philosophically, I believe the designer's goal involves
making decisions for the user. If the decisions are good, it's a good design
and the user is content. I do not believe it's the designer's goal to defer
everything to the user. As a bonus, making decisions early tends to
simplify the design. This is why there are no stty modes or resource
files in Plan 9.
And why there are no 'dot files', although that issue also involves the
avoidance of dot files filling up your home directory silently and slowing
down every command that reads the most important directory in your
world for the sake of customizability. A $USER/lib directory is a
much sounder place to put such things.
On a related note, I see no merit whatsoever in separating 'mechanism'
from 'policy'. If the best design involves conflating them, go for it.
-rob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-27 15:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-27 9:37 pavlovetsky
2007-06-27 10:08 ` Lucio De Re
2007-06-27 15:07 ` Rob Pike [this message]
2007-06-27 18:26 ` Bakul Shah
2007-06-27 18:35 ` Kris Maglione
2007-06-27 19:09 ` Bakul Shah
2007-06-27 19:24 ` David Leimbach
2007-06-27 19:39 ` Gabriel Diaz
2007-06-27 20:35 ` Bakul Shah
2007-06-27 21:20 ` Jack Johnson
2007-06-29 2:16 ` Bakul Shah
2007-06-27 19:51 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-06-27 21:49 ` Jack Johnson
2007-07-02 8:55 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-06-28 4:42 ` Anant Narayanan
2007-06-28 4:50 ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-06-28 17:30 ` Dave Eckhardt
2007-06-27 15:59 ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-06-27 16:23 ` Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente
2007-06-27 17:55 ` Steve Simon
2007-06-27 18:03 ` erik quanstrom
2007-06-27 18:22 ` Rob Pike
2007-06-28 15:26 ` Steve Simon
2007-06-27 18:03 ` Kris Maglione
2007-06-27 18:59 Russ Cox
2007-06-27 19:13 ` Tim Wiess
2007-06-27 21:25 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-06-27 15:41 ` john
2007-06-27 21:56 ` erik quanstrom
2007-06-27 16:18 ` john
2007-06-27 22:06 ` Kris Maglione
2007-06-27 21:48 ` Markus Sonderegger
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