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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 development
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On Nov 4, 2010, at 11:39 AM, ron minnich wrote:

> If you're the kind of person who understands that we don't need to
> change 'cat' any further, then you understand the work that is going
> on.

But why isn't the source for mk (3929 lines w/ headers, okay 4661 with =
mkfile and acid) at least as long as all that Java in the ant =
distribution (213151 lines)?  That's a lot of catching up to do.  The =
market has clearly spoken, and it appears that more lines dominates the =
soup.

> sysfromiso makes that clear. It's a great way to watch the
> improvements going in. Hats off to the folks at Bell Labs for keeping
> it rolling.

Thanks for putting sysfromiso together.  It does help for when I'm =
looking in from a browser.

-jas