From: "Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] ports from GPL
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 18:49:18 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <775b8d190603232349o313fd449y6eef07e75031f888@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1143178184.3558.2.camel@heater.intranet.ebr>
as it was intended.
On 3/24/06, ems <oat@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> I prefer "everything is accessed like a file"
>
> -- ems
> On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 08:39 -0700, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> > Brantley Coile wrote:
> >
> > > Anyone else see this? More cultures?
> > >
> > >
> >
> > One of the more interesting to me is waserror()/poperror() vs. goto.
> >
> > Also, I've realized nobody in Unix understands Plan 9. It took me a
> > while. The worst thing ever done was to say that in Plan 9, 'everything
> > is a file'. It's not. It would have been much better to say 'everything
> > is a server', maybe. But the 'everything is a file' totally muddies the
> > discussion, and confuses people, to the point that you actually have to
> > unwind the discussion and start over -- each and every time.
> >
> > ron
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-24 7:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-16 8:11 Fernan Bolando
2006-03-16 13:03 ` Anthony Sorace
2006-03-16 16:50 ` Jack Johnson
2006-03-17 1:05 ` erik quanstrom
2006-03-17 11:33 ` Brantley Coile
2006-03-17 12:03 ` Axel Belinfante
2006-03-17 15:39 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-03-20 3:44 ` Dave Eckhardt
2006-03-20 3:50 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-20 4:11 ` Russ Cox
2006-03-20 8:13 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-03-24 5:29 ` ems
2006-03-24 7:49 ` Bruce Ellis [this message]
2006-03-24 17:14 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-03-24 17:34 ` erik quanstrom
2006-03-24 18:11 ` Wes Kussmaul
2006-03-24 18:09 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-03-24 18:26 ` Wes Kussmaul
2006-03-26 9:14 ` ems
2006-03-17 14:11 erik quanstrom
2006-03-17 14:22 ` Brantley Coile
2006-03-17 15:40 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-03-18 0:39 ` geoff
2006-03-18 0:59 ` erik quanstrom
2006-03-18 1:16 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-03-18 1:18 ` George Michaelson
2006-03-19 14:43 ` David Leimbach
2006-03-20 2:18 ` erik quanstrom
2006-03-20 3:39 ` uriel
2006-03-20 11:50 ` erik quanstrom
2006-03-20 20:00 ` Aharon Robbins
2006-03-21 2:41 ` erik quanstrom
2006-03-20 19:50 ` Aharon Robbins
2006-03-20 19:59 ` George Michaelson
2006-03-21 23:43 ` Jack Johnson
2006-03-17 15:12 erik quanstrom
2006-03-17 15:21 Mike Haertel
2006-03-17 15:25 erik quanstrom
2006-03-17 16:17 erik quanstrom
2006-03-18 2:03 dmr
2006-03-18 6:12 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-03-18 6:24 ` Tim Wiess
2006-03-18 6:36 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-03-18 13:31 ` Brantley Coile
2006-03-18 13:30 ` Brantley Coile
2006-03-18 16:28 ` George Michaelson
2006-03-18 23:13 ` Brantley Coile
2006-03-19 1:03 ` geoff
2006-03-18 14:03 erik quanstrom
2006-03-18 14:14 erik quanstrom
2006-03-18 18:47 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-18 19:01 erik quanstrom
2006-03-21 1:56 erik quanstrom
2006-03-21 3:43 ` dmr
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