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Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 05:49:03 +1100
From: Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: rminnich@lanl.gov,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Maybe it is april fool's after all ...
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anyone who has thought "i wonder how linux does this" will
have gone through all the layers of misguided inexperience.

brucee

On 1/22/06, Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov> wrote:
>
> > the original point was that it doesn't matter whether you can
> > see the source or not, the effect is the same - failure to deal
> > with complexity results in an inability to simply compile a
> > working programme on new hardware running the same O/S and have
> > it work. instead, hacks are done and baggage is carried around
> > to keep the old binary working.
> >
>
> it's even worse than that, because people learn from the bad code. We're
> raising a whole generation of people who think awful stuff is how it's
> done ...
>
> ron
>